Article Analysis: Self-Pity

 https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/articles/160535/on-self-pity-go-eat-worms

PROSE FROM POETRY MAGAZINE

On Self-Pity: Go Eat Worms

"And why should the idea that things could be worse help? Things could be worse may be one of those lies that allows us to live, obscuring the truer truth: Things will be worse. "

Hyperboles put our individual situations into perspective and allow us to cherish what we have instead of wallowing in self pity and complaining. It is ironic how exaggerating our sadness through self-pity can give birth to a humbling perspective that is closer to reality.