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Originally Posted by Nammu
Pollyannas bother me more
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It's just another kind of emotional.
Yeah, I have a short tolerance for too much emotional drama. Probably comes from spending way too much time with teenagers (24/7 actually). I have an extreme amount of patience, but sometimes enough is enough already.
Edited to add: Sorry, you asked us to be specific about what gets annoying. I guess for me it is the melodrama over relatively small matters. I mean, if a person gets all upset over something trivial, how the heck are they going to deal with life when life gets real on them? It guess it's a perspective thing. I have a husband who has lived in chronic debilitating pain for 31 years. I have friends who have terminally ill children, spouses, etc. I have a friend going through a heart transplant. I have friends who have lost their jobs and are struggling to make ends meet. My cousin lost her house in a devastating 100-year flood. My future daughter-in-law's best friend has just been diagnosed with a very rare disease that has had her confined to a hospital bed since January. Etc, etc, etc.
So then I run into someone throwing a fit because someone didn't "like" their post on FB, or freaking out because they got a C on that test instead of an A, or crying buckets because their friend said something to them they didn't like. I get those things are upsetting, but when the reaction is so far out of proportion to the actual severity and seriousness of the event, I just want to say "Take a deep breath, go find something else to think about for awhile, and this too shall pass." I don't (unless it is someone I know well enough to feel free to speak to that way), but it sure crosses my mind. It's fine to be upset, but somewhere a person has to gain some perspective or life is going to really be a shocker down the road when something truly upsetting and life changing actually happens . . . and it will.