Quote: Personally I dont want to hear, comments like 'everything's ok.' or 'dont worry about it.' when things are bad. its not the truth and conflicts with the reality of the situation and the action that needs to be taken.
I'm totally with you on this. I hate it when something really catastrophic is happening and someone is saying "everything's going to be all right." Hell, lots of times everything is NOT all right. YEARS and YEARS down the road, we may look back at these times and see that everything did work out for the best, but at the time that it's happening (fire, flood, famine, trip to the ER) is not the time bo blow fake sunshine up my dress.
A better way to blow the sunshine is a statement closer to "whatever happens, we can get through it." More down to earth and acknowledges our own strength and need to act.
