Misery Loves Company

You would think that when a person was sad and miserable with their life and the direction their life was going, they would be doing everything they could to conquer that misery and change the direction of their miserable life. Sadly, it is not always the way it is. Some that are drowning in misery are also lonely. They had rather intruded into the lives of those around them that are happy and successful and do all they can to drag them down to their level. For some delusional reason, they seem to get more satisfaction in hurting someone else, than they do in defeating the cause of their unhappiness. It is like chopping off your nose to spite your face. When you see someone, you know wouldn’t it make more sense to rejoice and celebrate their happiness and success, rather than become bitter and try to destroy it? Should you need anything from them, how are you most likely to get it? By being rude and disrespectful? By being kind and respectful? That seems like a no-brainer to me. You can almost always tell when someone is miserable with themselves or their lives. They are never satisfied with what they have, how they look, where they live, or what they are doing. They are anxiously trying to find out all they can about someone else and what is going on in their lives. They are quick to offer advice to someone on the exact things they have failed miserably at. They are always very fast to offer advice, yet never willing to accept any or even follow the advice they give. They are quick to inquire about what you are doing, why you are doing it, and whom you are doing it for. Yet refuse to disclose even the most trivial things going on in their own lives. If you are content with who you are, where you are in life, and what you have or don’t have, then you will not need to know any of these things about anyone else. If you are happy with your own life, it brings you more happiness to see someone in your life do better, even if it’s better than you are doing. It is only those that are sad and miserable that seek to meddle in your affairs and interfere with your happiness. Simply because they are miserable and lonely, and misery loves company.
Do not let these people or the actions of these people define who you are, how you react to them, or what they say and do. Instead, keep doing what you are doing it is bothering the hell out of them, or they would leave you the hell alone. Misery loves company and Happiness loves contentment so be happy and content and let misery find its own friends.

Simply my Thoughts
Dean Butler