Don't you just love it when you have a problem and try to talk to someone about it, only to be told, "Oh but dear, everyone has problems!" I often wonder about this supposed fact. Does everyone have true problems? Frankly, I doubt it. Sure, we all have problems, but not all of us have serious ones—the ones I shall call "issues" (or, rather "Issues" with a capital "I" instead of "issues" with a small "i"). An interesting thing comes to mind when I hear someone tell me that everyone has problems: Could it be that people who have serious issues are also more likely to associate with other people who have serious issues (like attracts like, after all). If this is true, then the person who tells you that everyone has problems does, indeed, believe this to be true because everyone in their world has issues! Humans have a tendency to extrapolate the experiences from their own circumscribed lives onto the bigger world around them. Thus, they assume that if their own friends and families are conflicted, everyone must be conflicted too. But it's surely not the case, because my experiences (outside me own world) show me that most people do not have serious, conflictual issues!

In addition, it often goes without saying that claiming that "everyone has problems" is a way of way of minimising one's owns issues and procrastinating on doing anything about them.