On Kim Kardashian's lost-earring-reaction and our own lost-earring-reactions

There are very few things in life that make me literally laugh out loud a third or fourth time.  The above video is one of them.  It makes its rounds on the interwebs and as a result I have watched this ten, maybe twenty, times (it's short).  Every time I laugh hysterically. Why is it so funny to me? Well, there are few reasons, and most of them come down to the fact that they're talking about earrings!

First, you've got Kim's reaction. Panic over a lost earring.  That is a fairly normal reaction for a person who has [foolishly] invested the majority of his/her net-worth in one pair of earrings, but not so much a normal reaction for someone who probably has eight other pairs of diamond earrings and just fell into an ocean wearing a multi-hundred dollar outfit, at a private resort in Bora Bora.  You'd think there were enough other good things going on for Kim that her reaction would at least balance out to appropriately disappointed.

The next hilarious chain in this chain of events is that Kim approaches her mother like a small child, crying, and Kris responds as the mother of a small child would, coddling.  Most hilarious by far, however, is the burst of reality we get from Kourtney who, upon hearing Kim's over-the-top reaction to her lost earring, questions the chaos and then appropriately states, "There's people that are dying."  Not, "there are people in the world dying" or something even more specific like "children are dying of starvation in Africa as we speak."  No, "There's people that are dying."  Which makes you wonder for a short second whether these people she speaks of are in her immediate presence, struggling for life just of camera, or if she is speaking of the hypothetical individuals who are probably dying as happens in the Circle of Life.  Regardless, I appreciate the sentiment and I'm sure it was especially appreciated by Middle America viewer #2,894 who was thinking the very same thing that Kourtney expressed.

And, [perhaps surprisingly] Kourtney is right on the money [that paid for an obscenely expensive earring].  "There's people that are dying."  There are people out there whose problems make a lost diamond earring [no matter what the cut, clarity, and color], look like a literal piece of cake. But, Kim is not the only person who needs a little bit of Kourtney's perspective. We all need it from time to time.  You see, we all have our own diamond-earring-in-the-ocean reactions.  Things happen.  Bad things.  And we get angry, or sad, or frustrated, or anxious.  We react.  And that's okay.  That's normal.  In those moments, however, what we need to remind ourselves of, is that "there's people that are dying."  Our problems, yes, they are problems, but they are (usually) not insurmountable.  These problems we have, that make us angry, sad, frustrated, anxious, they are temporary, and most of the time, do not kill us.  We survive.  One earring less, but we survive.

So, next time you lose an earring in the ocean or [INSERT DAY-TO-DAY ANNOYANCE HERE], remember, "there's people that are dying." You will survive. Just be happy that you're still in Bora Bora.

Keep on thinking,
Josie