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<\/a>I recently played in our club’s big invitational golf tournament<\/strong>.\u00a0 My partner and I won our flight and came in third overall.\u00a0 But that doesn’t really tell the story.\u00a0 She played brilliantly and I played like the dog’s dinner.\u00a0 In fact, that may be an insult to canine fare.\u00a0 My crowning achievement was picking the right partner<\/strong>.\u00a0 I was despondent about my play and, having to participate in the “shoot out” in front of 100+ people to determine the overall winner, was horrifying.\u00a0 But then a good friend sidled up to me and said, “Get a grip.\u00a0 Think about the people in Ukraine.\u00a0 This is a first-world problem.”<\/p>\nBut for your amusement this Monday morning, and as some relief from the constant bad news, here are some of the first world problems I have heard lately:<\/p>\n Whether it’s just complaining about trivial problems or true humblebragging, we could all stand to put things into perspective.\u00a0 That is easier said than done on the golf course, but it’s worth a try.<\/p>\n By Suzanne Sparrow Watson I recently played in our club’s big invitational golf tournament.\u00a0 My partner and I won our flight and came in third overall.\u00a0 But that doesn’t really tell the story.\u00a0 She played brilliantly and I played like … read more![\"\"](\"https:\/\/fromabirdseyeview.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/wifi-hotel-300x150.jpg\")
<\/a>Of course, she was right.\u00a0 Bad play in a golf tournament on a beautiful blue-sky day, surrounded by friends, is not something to complain about.\u00a0 Most of us have lives that are filled with first-world problems.\u00a0 I’ve heard people complain that their Wi-fi connection at the Ritz<\/strong> was too slow or the roast on their Tanzania Peaberry coffee beans was overdone. The term “first world” is actually an anachronism, since we no longer talk about the \u201cthird world\u201d. We have shifted to the more optimistic phrase \u201cdeveloping world\u201d.\u00a0 Still, the idea of ridiculous first world complaints<\/strong> persist, and they seem particularly trivial in contrast to the horrors we’re seeing in Ukraine on the nightly news.<\/p>\n\n
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<\/a>Then there are the “complaints” that are really something else: the humblebrag.<\/strong>\u00a0 A humblebrag is defined as “an ostensibly modest or self-deprecating statement whose actual purpose is to draw attention to something of which one is proud.”\u00a0 I think Facebook and Instagram have built their business models<\/strong> around humblebragging.\u00a0 Parents of school-aged children are particularly good at it. Their posts usually go something like this: “I am so clumsy. I spilled Opus One all over the papers I need to sign to get Missy into the gifted program.”<\/p>\n<\/h2>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"