Q: What's invisible and smells like carrots? A: Rabbit farts.
The acme of the acmes:... The Everest.
Two drunk men where heading home, one was on all fours, the other one leaning on a fence and laughing at the other one. The one on all fours says: " Laugh as much as you can, but boy, how much I'll laugh when your fence will end!".
An old tutor of mine said, "laugh and the whole world laughs with you, weep and you weep alone" when I was depressed. It was the shittiest thing to say to someone like me at that time.
Not funny, but that's what your thread reminded me of.
Your old tutor was right, but it wasn't the most appropriate thing to say to someone who is upset. Harsh truth has its time and place. You needed comfort, then, not tough love.