i don’t think this is a “poor attempt to sympathize”; if your roommate’s mom is a plane ride away, yall are in the same boat just because her mom is geographically closer doesn’t mean that she can’t miss her, plus your roommate might have other obstacles preventing her from visiting her (e.g. financial difficulties) if she said her mom was a 30 min drive away, i’d understand your frustration but once you reach a certain threshold it’s all p much the same

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i feel like they were just trying to tell u ur not alone… while yes, arkansas vs india are two different distances it is still distance and u are both feeling the same thing.

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I can’t tell if it was a poor attempt to sympathize or a poor attempt to one up you. Either way probably would have been better to keep her mouth shut

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I mean I don’t know your roomyor how she said it but it’s entirely possible she meant it in a “you’re not alone, I sympathize with you” way

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India is 100% okay rn politically I have friends who travel there regularly and others who live there now, unless u go to Kashmir I don’t understand why you’re nervous, unless it’s bc you love him and you’re gonna miss him then that’s totally valid, but otherwise it’s a normal country w day to day operations

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Hello from Arkansas! o/

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He’s gone to India like 5 other times & it’s not that he doesn’t kinda need cool things to experience but he didn’t want to go and he had to go during Easter and he’s obviously getting older as people do😂& I just worry if something happens he’s alone and like 24 hours away, which he’s home now & he should be retiring soon but I just needed to rant about it bc I’m still not over what my roommate said, maybe she meant it in a“youre not alone” way but she constantly tried to one up me&my roommates

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