Are others' lives really more difficult than yours (as they proclaim it to be)?

Tweet

I have seen this quite often in my life, and I sometimes wonder about it. Whenever I tell of the hardships I am currently facing in my life, (mind you, I don't crib or anything, but just lightly say what the problems I have to deal with), people have this general attitude to be condescending and say that it's nothing as compared to what they had/are having to face in their lives, acting as though my life is a breeze as compared to theirs. So I feel, is it really the case that everybody in this entire world had to face more hardships than me? I have to live thousands of miles away from my home, away from all my loved ones, and only seldom do I get to meet them, have to eat food which is alien to me, and does not go down quite well also with my system, that too in a climate which does not have any seasonal changes. It's forever summer here, blindingly hot summer, with temperatures often going above 40 degrees centigrade. The people speak in a language which I can't understand, and sometimes, they start talking among themselves in their language without even bothering to consider the person who also wants to join their conversation, but is being consciously left out.