Negativity

I struggle with people being negative. I struggle with not telling people to soldier up or to get over it....when it seems trivial to me. I involuntarily judge others and what should be "hard" for them. I have this "friend" (really I knew him when we were kids and now as adults he is on my Face.book page), he constantly posts about the sh!tstorm that is his life. Except, he's healthy, his kids are healthy, he is an active part of their life, he is employed and has plenty of friends around him. So the only thing that isn't going well in his life...he isn't married or in a romantic relationship....I automatically go to "if I can survive everything I have endured in my adult life, then surely you can make an attempt to not be a complete drag" So now that I've started to tame my gossipping...maybe I should work on empathy...not judging what they should be able to pull through...but honestly as long as they're putting forth an effort to get through their rough patch, I don't mind it so much.