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I think we see that kind of attitude around here often enough.
There are whole threads on it. "Why do people post all these good moments on Facebook?" Seriously, people get resentful and post threads on it. Its a reflection on those people, not the people posting on Facebook. Its envy, personal unhappiness. They seem to want to see other people's misery, even though we know people would avoid someone who was publicly miserable all the time.
There are whole threads on it. "Why do people post all these good moments on Facebook?" Seriously, people get resentful and post threads on it. Its a reflection on those people, not the people posting on Facebook. Its envy, personal unhappiness. They seem to want to see other people's misery, even though we know people would avoid someone who was publicly miserable all the time.
You know how sometimes, when someone is literally drowning, and someone is trying to rescue them, and the drowning person ends up nearly drowning the rescuer? Sometimes I think it's kind of like that.
I can't think of anyone I know who is resentful when they see someone who is happy. When I see happy people, it makes me smile and lifts my spirits.
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Yeah, me too.
The vids of the soldiers coming back home, the team winning the final goal and the mayhem that breaks out, watching a baby smile when you play with them.
All good stuff.
So much crap in this world, seeing people happy is what helps me hang on.
You know how sometimes, when someone is literally drowning, and someone is trying to rescue them, and the drowning person ends up nearly drowning the rescuer? Sometimes I think it's kind of like that.
When someone is attaining happiness through unethical, or even illegal, means... then IMHO it's natural to feel resentment.
I remember experiencing that emotion after watching Wolf of Wall St.
Happiness isn’t attained through illegal or unethical means i.e. it’s a positive emotion whereas you’re speaking to greed, anger, desperation, and so on.
I've witnessed this too many times to count. Folks having something negative to say about others' success (screams of jealously and envy), which is a mess. In my experience, though, this usually comes from people having unpleasant encounters with such successful people, though a few cases have been just people bitter for not being able to attain what the successful people have attained.
Because they aren't happy, or the happy people have something they want, and have been unable to obtain.
I'm seeing it now in a person who always felt her life was superior to her siblings, then her sibling obtained what she had and surpassed her. So now that person is making snarky comments to them for no reason, and throwing around light insults.
They will have to work it out on their own, and figure out why the other's success makes them feel bad.
I read the autobiography by rock star Paul Stanley(Kiss.) He mentions how his father downplayed his success telling him it was luck. Stanley didn’t realize years later his father was sadly jealous.
The late David Cassidy, one-time a huge pop star wrote in his book something similar. His father the actor Jack Casidy putdown his TV and music as artificial and thus not being legitimate.
To a certain extent my brother "laughs" off the fact I am a self-made millionaire. Why? Because, I earned my money working in Japan and thus it doesn't really "count."
Simple. They are probably very unhappy people and are upset that they cannot find happiness and everyone else can. Not hard to understand at all. I don’t feel that way but could see why someone would. I had a friend like that years ago. He would get so angry seeing a happy couple holding hands but that was after he joined the military and was stationed in England. He caught his wife cheating on him and they got divorced. He hated women after that. It hit him hard. Didn’t help that his father died during all if that.
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