How Would You Feel If...

[AAP]

you found out that someone from your past who had done you REALLY wrong in numerous bad ways was going through extended difficult times. (No death or health concerns) but in terms of a co worker you didn't like getting fired and prosecuted, or an ex that used you is now going through a series of being dumped and hit an all time low with false ads on the internet, etc...

Would you secretly feel pleased? Would you gloat on the inside each time you saw them?

Let's be honest here.

 

[havoc]

No, I would wish them the best.

 

[WODIN]

I personally find no sense of satisfcation in another person having difficulties in their life.

 

[Juice Moose]

I am a cold mutha fucka, so I would laugh in their face every chance I had.

 

[rnch]

what goes around comes around................


although i wouldn't admit it out loud; i would take great personal delight and satisfaction in a backstabber getting paid back by their own downfall.

 

[KHMER ROGUE]

I'm not going to lie, there would be a part of me that would take some joy in her misery. However, it will be quickly overshadowed by my guilty conscience and I would wish for the best. Life's too short to be immature.

 

[bigguns7]

I would feel sorry for them, but I would feel a little satisfaction, not in the fact that they were suffering, but in the fact that bad shit came back around to slap them in the face.

 

[Hengst]

the Germans have a word for this:

Schadefreude

Which roughly translates into receiving pleasure from someone else's misfortune. Leave it to the Germans to have a word for this. But, then again, they are the people who made S/M social policy... LOL LOL

 

[supersizeme]

I haven't ever really wished pain on another person when i was thinking rationally and not caught up in a heated moment, but in a stituation like you're talking about where quite some time has passed, i'd probably just recognize the fact that karma is a bitch and you can't outrun it. it's gonna gitcha.

 

[AAP]

I don't mean feel gloating in an ugly or childish kind of way... but when it was a situation where they were doing you wrong and both of you knew it and they still grinned and acted smug towards you in front of you over it.... like they were something special and you were dirt and the situation would never change....

Would be glad as rnch said that real life Karma came back and sunk it's teeth in their ass?

On one hand, I am tempting to pull a Juice Moose in their face.

 

[MFMan]

maybe in a way part of me would. but i have to much of a conscience and would just come to terms with the saying what goes around comes around. i could never wish anything bad on anyone. unless we are talking someone who molested and killed children. talking in terms of someone committing a horrific evil act. then i would be glad it something bad happened to them.

 

[AAP]

I haven't ever really wished pain on another person when i was thinking rationally and not caught up in a heated moment, but in a stituation like you're talking about where quite some time has passed, i'd probably just recognize the fact that karma is a bitch and you can't outrun it. it's gonna gitcha.

I wouldn't wish pain on anyone, but then again... this is not like a revenge situation I put into motion (or else they would really be suffering).

This is a case of someone who built their house out of straw. It took a long time for them to make this bed... now it's time to sleep in it.

People say to me... "you hear about so and so?", "what do you think about so and so?"

And then you run into so and so and they are like..."heyyyyy it's Michael, look at you, doing real well for yourself huh? I always knew you would. How's life treating you? That a new car?" All the while it was not too long ago you were hearing things like "you're trash.", "you will never amount to anything", "hope you like living a hard life."

 

[Juice Moose]

Pull a Juice Moose in their face, that gets the creative thoughts a flowing, coming from Anal...

 

[strider364]

In these situation at first I feel like the got what was coming, but eventually I feel very sorry for their misfortune, because the same shit could happen to me.

 

[troybday]

i have been done wrong by a few who were the closet to me. if something happened to them and i was able to be around for it, i'd approach them with both middle fingers in the air and get right up and there face and say these exact yours, "that's what u get for being a mutha fuckin scumbag, you bitch ass trick"!! oh, and i'm totally 100% serious!!!

 

[john937]

"Love your enemies. It'll drive 'em crazy."

I just wish I could put that into practice!

 

[gymtime]

I'd feel niether joy nor sympathy.

 

[vixenbabe]

The best sort of revenge is NOT to be like he/she who did the injury...

 

[AAP]

"Love your enemies. It'll drive 'em crazy."

I just wish I could put that into practice!

Very true.

 

[AAP]

The best sort of revenge is NOT to be like he/she who did the injury...

This also is very true.

 

[big4life]

I would like to think that I would not find any joy in it, but I know that there are several people who I would get some enjoyment out of seeing them down.

 

[sereneman]

Well I guess it would depend on how bad I hate the person. My current boss is a total scumbag. I would probably be secretly happy if he got run over by a train. Sometimes I have wanted bad people to suffer and when they actually did, I felt bad.

 

[Taps]

No, I would wish them the best.

Yep, me too.

 

[casavant]

Yes, I would be somewhat pleased.

 

[casavant]

Man, we've got a bunch of on here.

 

[b fold the truth]

you found out that someone from your past who had done you REALLY wrong in numerous bad ways was going through extended difficult times. (No death or health concerns) but in terms of a co worker you didn't like getting fired and prosecuted, or an ex that used you is now going through a series of being dumped and hit an all time low with false ads on the internet, etc...

Would you secretly feel pleased? Would you gloat on the inside each time you saw them?

Let's be honest here.

Hmmm...knowing me I'd probably suck it up and do EVERYTHING that I could to forgive and forget...and to help them in any way possible.

B True

 

[casavant]

Re: Re: How Would You Feel If...

Hmmm...knowing me I'd probably suck it up and do EVERYTHING that I could to forgive and forget...and to help them in any way possible.

B True

I'd ream them with a 2" diameter dowel wrapped in course grit sandpaper.

 

[Jimsbbc]

i've had that happen in several different friendships and relationships. It hurts me to see someone I was close with go through a hard time, especially when I have been there myself. In the back of my mind i might resent them, but at some point I let go and it's their life. I can not attach myself to them any longer once that friendship is broken because i am on the outside looking in.