When you look at the struggles of someone else, they often look different from your own, but they still exist. One person lives in Africa, they struggle to put food on the table for themselves, let alone their family. Another guy has five houses, he’s worth over 500 million dollars, his company is in the process of going public.
If someone from the outside was looking at that, they’d look at the second guy and say those are all just first world problems and it’s not a big deal, but the guy trying to put food on the table is really the one suffering and going through hardship.
To a degree, I agree. The guy in Africa has a more life and death kind of problem. At the same time, just because the guy in Africa has a more life and death problem doesn’t mean that the other guy doesn’t have struggles. In some ways, he may live a life that’s even more stressed than the man trying to put food on the table. Self-imposed? Maybe, but it’s still there.
Everyone is in a different stage and place in life. Some are more monetarily blessed than others, some are relationally blessed. We’d do well not to negate the struggle of others comparing them to the struggles we believe are worse.