This afternoon, I helped a student with a paper that was tangentially about the fact that everyone has their own issues that most people don't know about. We might notice people being irritable or seeming lazy or having any other undesirable trait, but we may not see the circumstances or conditions that led to them having those traits. As the saying goes, "everyone you meet is fighting a battle you know nothing about." Sometimes, they lose those battles in painfully visible ways, but we should try to be kind to them anyway. Be patient, if possible. We have no idea how long or how hard they had been fighting before we saw them lose.
I lost such a battle recently, and I am eternally grateful for those who still managed to respond with patience and kindness.
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We all have times when we struggle and fail, but if we learn from the experience, we can change a loss into a gain.
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