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It's not fair. 

You see all these self-indulging statements, how people "don't care" / "pretend to care" / "say they want to understand you but don't" / "are insincere" / "are too superficial" - like it's all their fault. 

But it's not. Everyone is fighting a hard battle. Objectively, some harder than others. But souls are not transferrable. Neither is pain. It just doesn't work like that. Everybody only fully experiences their own battles. You can't expect anyone to fully understand you - it just doesn't work that way. 

These statements, these self indulging statements place a far too unfair responsibility on the rest of the world. It's not that they're too superficial, it's probably just that their own battle preoccupies them too much. Also - how much are you letting go? I knew someone I simply couldn't connect with because he refused to let me in, no matter how hard I tried. It's not that we run away when life gets tough, sometimes we get pushed away, sometimes we're never let in, sometimes we honestly cannot handle it. 

There's nothing wrong with someone taking care of themselves first. 

This is why I'll never be anything more than a right winged capitalist - because I believe in the individual.