I heard someone say this once:
"when I'm miserable I want everyone else to be miserable too"
A coworker says this is true of most people, I say it is not. What say you?
I heard someone say this once:
"when I'm miserable I want everyone else to be miserable too"
A coworker says this is true of most people, I say it is not. What say you?
Do, or do not. There is no try. - Yoda
I say it depends. A strong-willed person (in my mind, at least) will try and take responsibility for themselves and overcome their miserableness, rather than desiring that others feel the same. But I definitely know people of whom your coworker speaks.
A lot of people like for it to rain when they are sad, too. Is it the beauty of the rain that they desire, or the miserableness that the rain might potentially bring others? Food for thought.
“the sense of being which in calm hours arises, we know not how, in the soul, is not diverse from things, from space, from light, from time, from man, but one with them and proceeds obviously from the same source.... Here is the fountain of action and of thought....
If they are the cause of my misery and they are either happy or relaxed, even conscious of what they've done, then I want to drag them to hell with me. I won't wish any good for them at all.
Misery doesn't love. That's why it's misery. It always tries to force misery by whatever imaginable BS.
Disagree. When I am miserable I want to be alone so as to let my misery play out without guilt and not to inflict myself on others.
I'm weary with right-angles, abbreviated daylight,
Waiting for a winter to be done.
Why do I still see you in every mirrored window,
In all that I could never overcome?
Hahaha! Max, this made me LOL!Originally Posted by Maximilianus
Unhappy/miserable people often need the reassurance that they are not the only ones who feel this way. So in order to accomplish this they do their best to make others around them miserable too.
“The embers of past lives lie within us all, waiting to be fanned into flames of reality by the breezes of remembrance.” Jett Black.
I think it depends, usually when I'm miserable I just want to be alone but then again I want to be alone most of the time no matter what mood I'm in. I am happy if I get a better grade than some of my friends, but that makes them miserable but me happy so that probably doesn't matter in this discussion.
I don't think rain should be connected with misery, I love the rain.
I hope death is joyful, and I hope I'll never return -Frida Khalo
If I seem insensitive to what you are going through, understand it's the way I am- Mr. Spock
Personally, I think that the unique and supreme delight lies in the certainty of doing 'evil'–and men and women know from birth that all pleasure lies in evil. - Baudelaire
I don't know. Sometimes I can start off feeling miserable but find being in the company of happy people pulls me out of the place I'm in. Good vibes are a powerful force.
Before sunlight can shine through a window, the blinds must be raised - American Proverb
The people I value most know how to have a good laugh, even if they are miserable people. So in this way, I agree that good vibes go a longer way than misery.
I think when I'm miserable, I want everyone else to let me in to their happiness, and it makes me happy to not have to deal with my misery. I then move past it, and usually realise that the miserable time actually meant nothing after all.
does misery ever mean anything? maybe it's just a tool to inspire.
“the sense of being which in calm hours arises, we know not how, in the soul, is not diverse from things, from space, from light, from time, from man, but one with them and proceeds obviously from the same source.... Here is the fountain of action and of thought....
Well, I suppose it may be good to serve the purpose of somebody's LOLing
I work with some people who on their smoko do nothing but whinge about everything under the sun and I realise nothing is going to put a smile on their face. I figure they're happy enough doing that though otherwise they'd go into hiding and shun all company.
Before sunlight can shine through a window, the blinds must be raised - American Proverb
maybe it's what some people think is the expected response to smoko time, along with swearing every second word.
' You know, I've had some mother****ing trouble with that wanker before. he's such a ****...' Etc
Gosh, interesting what the censors don't pick up.
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