Yay! Schadenfreude

Little Miss Weird-ass ? Lmao

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You quoted the wrong person

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I'm a male :bugeye:

 

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Huh ? Oh sorry.. lol

Edit: fixed !

 

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That's very nice of you.

 

She might be happy too, just because she's a single mom doesn't naturally make her miserable. I can however agree that sometimes it's nice to see 'bullies' not doing so well. There was a girl who I thought was my very best friend at school starting taunting me for no good reason and made my life miserable for ages. She didn't turn out so fabulous either. It does kind of make you wonder if there is any truth in the statement 'What goes around, comes around'.

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that's admirable. I've never met anyone as perfect as you

 

Going to class reunions you see a lot of Schadenfreude going on.

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On the topic of Schadenfreude...

This couple was married for years, had kids, etc. She decided she wanted out, and told him as much. Having no money they remained together until arrangements could be made. During this time the man put lots of work and effort into convincing her to stay. Finally, he gave up, after she told him directly to find someone new, indirectly saying that she had. So he did. One week after finding the new woman, the wife's new prince turned into a toad. She went ballistic at the man, demanding they return together, declaring her love, that she had never really meant any of it. The man said no.

Is it schadenfreude that the man felt a bit of satiisfaction that the woman was overcome with buyers' remorse? He did only follow her instructions.

 

Oh hell yeah, its schadenfreude that the other guy was a toad.
Its karma that you wouldn't take her back

 

And that... is karma.

 

A phrase rather than a word comes to mind; 'poetic justice'.....

 

At the risk of sounding pretentious
The question has to be asked, does that really make you any better than her though ?.. Both taking pleasure in the suffering of others?
Not that I don't appreciate the justice aspect of it.. I was actually smiling when I read this..

 

But they don't. So why waste effort fighting reality?

I have a feeling either, Religion, strict upbringing, and/or a misguided sense of righteousness is involved. But it does not dim my appreciation for your optimism, beggars can't be choosers after all.

Yes, I'm cynically jaded. Blame the Baron.

 

Maybe all she ever wanted in her life was to be a mother, and now she is an accomplished person... Who knows... different people have different measurements for success.

I have a story like that though. A girl that used to be mean to me and my sister just because we were younger than her just added me to a social networking type website, and it seems that she got really fat.
HA!

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Why do you think it's misguided righteousness... how could you possibly define that?

 

It is hard to define.. I'm just naturally suspicious of altruistic people.
It's the attitude of righteousness, but aimed at the wrong problem.

 

In this context, though, what do you have to lose by forgiving a person who treated you bad? Even if it's not authentic forgiveness and it's just proud in being righteous, nobody has anything to lose from it.

 

The difference is, I would never have bullied or put her down when she had not done anything to me.

Being vengeful is not the same as wronging someone in the first place.

 

But VI, you're not being vengeful. You didn't get vengeance. Karma did that.