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Originally Posted by avlady
i think people need to sometimes vent and instead of using their friends and relatives that might get sick of it or disagree, they come here where they know someone can relate usually in some manner, it helps a person by getting things off their chest. i think as a reader i listen to what people are saying and it gives me a sense of purpous in some small way to know i may have helped someone.
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Asides you don't know if someone will actually relate, I think a huge issue is that people tend to believe what others are expressing is pretty much what they do/did out of listening similar words, but that's usually far from reality. We could say "oh, great, someone get it" when that's actually not the case and there's no one to tell what's actually being meant and comprehended.
So, in the end, most of people won't listen/read you but themselves (and this is something I may fall as well). It's not a selfish, ill-intended phenomenon. I like more to address it for how useless and subjective are our ways of communicating, and how even a hug would probably transmit more of a feeling (sth I can't have given I've no one to vent in a trustworthy conversation in real life).