Random analogies about suffering

   I am gradually remembering all the surprising things I have learned over the years of trying to stay alive and salvage as much of life and goodness as possible while feeling like I lose stuff faster than I gain it, except weight.  But anyway, one of the things I remember is an analogy that often comes to mind when I think of a very important command to be thankful for what I have and try not to complain.  I have had depression that made it difficult not to complain, and that is one thing to understand, but there is something else that I think is more important to understand, and when I think of it, I think of a certain scenario.  I think of someone sitting on the floor after a magic show or something like that and someone is standing on their hand.  And over all maybe life seems good but they have to cry out and say "Someone is standing on my hand."  And they can't move and leave and live their nice life until the person stops standing on their hand.  It is a very random analogy and not that great and yet I really believe that a lot of people who are told not to complain are in that situation where not only do they have to describe and explain their situation but they are trapped by the problem too. And even though it is kind of simple thing, and maybe even a mistake from someone else, in a way it is truly incapacitating and almost an emergency as much as it is a simple inconvenience.  I do not have real life examples for it, and some abuse situations should not be minimized by a comparison like this.  But this image did not come from nowhere, and when people say something is bothering them, they should be believed.

   The other analogy I think of is how some people expect people to catch a falling piano. I think this is something I think of when people expect people not to be affected by certain things that actually are very difficult situations. Falling pianos are common in the cartoons, and yet many people did not learn.
 Some writers weave analogies into nice writing but I decided to just say this stuff.