It is easy to be honest when your circumstance is a USA citizenship, comfortable house and a nice sober husband (most of which, as I always keep reminding myself, is pure luck rather than personal achievement). Voicing your discontent (for whatever reason) is a) totally safe b) might bring improvement. Not to mention that you would be voicing your discontent about certain relatively minor parts of your life, not 99.9% of it. For a person whose life is awful, what is the point of saying it out loud? Where do they go from there, to the noose? And even if they know it themselves they may not necessarily want to admit to it other people, especially luckier ones. Which is also understandable.
![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
timeasmymeasure
no subject
Date: 2011-04-14 04:19 am (UTC)Voicing your discontent (for whatever reason) is a) totally safe b) might bring improvement. Not to mention that you would be voicing your discontent about certain relatively minor parts of your life, not 99.9% of it.
For a person whose life is awful, what is the point of saying it out loud? Where do they go from there, to the noose? And even if they know it themselves they may not necessarily want to admit to it other people, especially luckier ones. Which is also understandable.