I think that if I ever have kids, and they are upset, I won’t tell them that people are starving in China or anything like that because it wouldn’t c… - Stephen Chbosky

I think that if I ever have kids, and they are upset, I won't tell them that people are starving in China or anything like that because it wouldn't change the fact that they were upset. And even if somebody else has it much worse, that doesn't really change the fact that you have what you have.

And even if somebody else has it much worse, that doesn't really change the fact that you have what you have. Good and bad.

Maybe it's good to put things in perspective, but sometimes, I think that the only perspective is to really be there.

It's just hard to see a friend hurt this much. Especially when you can't do anything except 'be there.' I just want to make him stop hurting, but I can't. So I just follow him around whenever he wants to show me his world.

And we could all sit around and wonder and feel bad about each other and blame a lot of people for what they did or didn’t do or what they didn’t know. I don’t know. I guess there would always be someone to blame.

Old pictures look very rugged and young, and the people in the photographs always seem a lot happier than you are.