Saturday 22 August 2009

Schadenfreude - Gary & Nicky from the cast of Avenue Q

The title of this song is a German 'loanword' which has been interpreted as "largely unanticipated delight in the suffering of another which is cognized as trivial and/or appropriate". Basically, it just means taking delight i other people's suffering.

Now i can only guess how many of you must have been reading with delight about the pain and the loss i've been suffering in the last few posts. Fair enuf. This is an open blog and all are welcomed to read - and react however you want to.

Still, it shocks me that some people actually experience great delight over it - and laugh me at my face when they see me. To me, tt's a new low.

Well, here is the latest - no more emo posts about it anymore. Go away. Shoo. Find yr sick amusement some place else.

2 comments:

vinegar said...

Well, I guess when people are lonely and sick, some seek delight out of other people's miseries.

We should be glad that at least we have something to fall back to, and do not fall into the same catagories as those when facing loneliness and negative things in life.

May the force be with you, to have the courage, wisdom and guts to face the darkness in life. ^_^

imissw said...

hey, thanks!

and i've been encouraged recently too when i 'published' some good news on FB and a lot of frens were happy for me and 'liked' it.