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When you feel weak compared to previous generations

I keep thinking about how my grandmother lived through the Depression and World War Two and raised six kids and here I am having a breakdown because my wifi is slow and I feel like such a failure compared to previous generations.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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The mind creates suffering by comparing present struggles to an idealized past, obscuring the universal nature of human difficulty across all eras.

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