Skip to: Site menu | Main content

misery loves company

2007-01-27

Miserable people, you can find them everywhere but, for some reason the internet seems to be a magnent for them! 

You know the folks I'm talking about, the ones that like to dwell on "what's wrong with ____" you fill in the blank!  I'm not talking about folks who care and actually do something about it, other than talk and spread their misery, I'm talking about people who love to wallow in it, find some kind of sick pleasure in depression.  As the saying goes, misery loves company, so before you know it, they are running in packs! 

Since I'm talking "online" here...One "saddy" will post a Woe is me and then the next one will come along and fall to their knees to praise the woeful one and so on...

Are these people really never happy or do they find happiness in being miserable.  Is that even possible?  I truly am not a pollyanna and I've faced my fair share of hard times in my life and I want to get as far away from those hard times as possible!  Isn't that what any sane person would do?  Hard meaning bad, sad, undesirable, dark.  Who wants that?

I don't get it and I hope I never do!

Link to This | Back to top

Vick (2007-01-28)
Yeppers WE are. UGH...you know? Yes all the ice is gone. I hope that is the last of that :)

Doe (2007-01-27)
Hi Vick, I think we're coming from the same place and probably speaking of some of the same people. Hey, has the ice melted? Still no snow here :(

Vick (2007-01-27)
I know....I know.... Misery is the only way they can attract folks to their blogs...years worth. You my Friend have posted here what I have been wanting to post about but wasn't quite sure how to do it. I gotta stop now before I become a real smarta$$ and pop off something really ugly...... OH WOE IS ME.

Doe (2007-01-27)
scribbler, I completely agree and maybe I was being to broad in my description. I think a gratitude journal is wonderful! I used to keep one and faithfully wrote in it for quite a while but, I've gotten out of that practice. I should start again :)

Doe (2007-01-27)
SS, I think you're far from being a dork :) I'm glad you stopped by and added your 2 cents! Please stop by anytime.

Spirited Minikin (2007-01-27)
Yeah kinda got that after the fact...I'm a dork...but anyway this is a good topic...interested to see what kind of buzz you get from the "misery packs" in defense of themselves...;)

Doe (2007-01-27)
"I'm not a misery loves company type." Then you are not one of the folks I'm referring to :)

scribbles (2007-01-27)
I think people write to vent their feelings and avoid the price of expensive therapy. It is too bad that tBlog or ShoutPost do not allow private blogs although some people feel they have to get it all out of their system publically so that they can be "heard". Others will just keep a diary on their word program. I can see what you are saying though and sometimes, I do think some people who grow up in a negative environment don't know how to be positive at all. They also don't know how to react to postitiveness they have been taught to be negative and that they get attention this way. A gratitude book is a better way to go though. Look at what you have and what you can do with what you have, don't dwell on what you don't have because you have more of what you don't have verses what you have right now.

Spirited Minikin (2007-01-27)
I post lots of "woe is me" stuff...I do not take "sick pleasure in depression". Writing this way, in this forum is a really good outlet for me. It is better for me to write my feelings down on paper (or whatever LOL!) as a way to deal with them rather than expose them in my actual day to day life (since I have young children and that would be grossly inappropriate). I like to post in a public way to get constructive advice from others who have lived and learned but I do get a lot of teenagers who want to share in my "angst" however that's not what I'm after. I'm not a misery loves company type...rather just trying to expel some of my bad feelings so the happy me I show everyday is more the real thing and not a facade. It's not doom and gloom 24/7 for me anyway...I take great joy in many parts of my life, mainly my children, and I think that is evident in a few of my posts...no matter how sarcastic I seem (LOL!) In closing, I do not expect you, or anybody else for that matter, to read my blog. But as another blogger (DKC, hi friend!) put it, this is a lot cheaper than paying a therapist. Take care.

[ Back to top ]

Created with ShoutPost