[hey2022]

That sounds like an unnatural conversation to have with a partner. Sharing specific negative things about your immediate experience and then slapping “I am grateful that I don’t live in a war-torn country” on top.

Saying that, I agree that reminding _yourself_ of such things helps to keep a more healthy perspective, just not sure sharing that in a conversation is helpful.

[lisper]

Well, yeah, that was just the general idea, not a script. I usually just say something like “if this is the biggest challenge we will ever have to deal with then we are doing pretty well” or something like that.