Is it normal not to be motivated by someone in a worse position than you?

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I'm just going to say it straight out that I'm a piece of a shit leech who still lives with their parents. I'm completely unmotivated and was depressed coming out of school. But this isn't really about the question at hand. So my father attempts to motivate me by showing me a video from Youtube of two men in a third-world country from which my parents were born from working together to make a living. One of them being an amputee, blind, and in a wheelchair. Bear in mind that I've lived on the internet way longer than my parents so I've already seen a lot of shit, and I know statistically there will always be someone in a better or worse position than you on a planet inhabited by nearly eight billion humans. I didn't even know what to say to father. I was completely speechless and emotionless. I didn't want to say something stupid like one upping him and saying dumb shit like I've seen a guy with no limbs live on Youtube and other disabilities or mental illnesses. Talk about starving children, kids forced into fighting in wars to live, being born into poverty shit holes, being killed off by your government for being a different race, or being raped for being a girl and no one giving a shit because that's the kind of country it is. But anyway, my point is, watching these kind of videos don't motivate me to do better in life. Is it lack of empathy? I don't know but to be blunt I don't care much. Do these kind of videos and sob stories motivate you guys to do better? Specifically people who haven't experienced such hardships in life.

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  • SudoHalt
    2 years ago

    Showing people in worse situations than you is really an attempt at making your problems look trivial. You have your own world, you own life story. Your feelings are a result of previous experiences both good and bad.

    I feel for those people that suffer because of worse circumstances, but it doesn't make me any more motivated either.

    Having said that, there is a very thin line between trivializing your problems and bringing yourself down. Why do you think you are a "piece of a shit leech"? Some people might be doing more progress than you, and that's OK, but you are not a "piece of a shit leech".

    Look up hikikomori. Some of them are what you would consider a leech, outrageously so: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oFgWy2ifX5s

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