It Was Amusing Of The Good Woman To Pretend To Be More Unfortunate Then She

When one is suffering, we belive that nobody else has suffered as much as we have. For example, Cunegonde finds it incredible that the old lady says, "You haven't had misfortunes like mine to bear, I assure you." Who could go thourgh a worse experience than Cunegonde? No one! Nobody had two stabs into his or her belly. No one had been as unlucky to see thier own parents being butchered infront of thier own eyes. Nobody had seen thier lover flogged and nobody had gone from rich to poor. Nope, absoloutely nobody had suffered as much as poor Cunegonde. It just was not possible.

But to Cunegonde's surprise, this ugly looking old lady use to be a princess, and a very pretty princess at that to. Striped away from her own country and majestic ways of life. The old lady was captured by pirates, as a young fair lady. Her mother and everyone else who was on the ship with her was also captured. The young fair ladys company is slaughtered, and her virginity (which was being saved for a prince) is also taken from her. She almost died, but what may be worse than death is that she lost everything know to her.

Doesn't this happen in daily life? Talking to a friend on MSN. She told me about another MSN conversation she had with another friend of hers. They were comparing thier lives to one another. She told me her experience in life, and how it was worse than the other girls. But looking at her explanation of what the other girl had gone through, I realised that both of them had been through completely diffrent things, but they were just about equal on what had gone "wrong" in thier lives. We all suffer one way or another in life, but out thier in this world thier is always someone who has things worse or better than us. Sometimes we forget that, and just think of ourselves.