what joy do people get from make someone else's day shitty?
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None. Even if the people deserve it. If I offend someone I usually end up apologizing to them. What's the point of being just another asshole?
1133925
I have not been out today but I do like to spread ramdom acts of kindness throughout my day to others.  Try it...It can be fun.  Pay for the car behind you at the drive through, bring a dessert to your neighbor, let someone with less groceries cut inline in front of you at the store, Hand a toll both operator a $20 bill to pay for others tolls, compliment anyone on their outfit, hair whatever.   There are a million things you can do and doing these things makes America better.
360418
Like the old saying goes...\n\n"Misery loves company" and some people hate that others can be happy and have earned that happiness.  Someone who is happy within themselves will not take gratification in anothers pain.
924308
The speaker is lamenting having done something or considering something that will rob him/her of the joys of old age. These joys include honor, love, obedience, multitudes of friends. Instead, he/she will receive silent curses from people for a long time, honor spoken falsely from others, and another day of living, which many people would be pleased to have in itself. At the same time, people feeling so depressed, such as the speaker, might be happy and simultaneously unhappy for living another day.
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just smile\nits so simple and it makes other smile\nwhich makes everyone happy\nyou may not know this but smiling at a stranger might just make his or her day\nthen while they are smiling they smile at someone else and its just contagious so its kinda doing something nice for many people not just one
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Think about it for a minute.......and you will realize......it wan`t worth thinking about.\n\nSarcasm usually makes people smile and feel better.
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doing something in return for them is good. \nSpending a day with them, just hanging out,\nand filling their day with smiles, is what\ni would do. Just make their life enjoyable\nwith plenty of happiness by blowing all the\nother problems away. Make them feel special\nby telling them they've made a big difference\nand how helpful,caring etc, they are.
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Most people who act like that are using it defensively because they're jealous.  So don't feel bad.  They're ugly people, inside and most likely out.  Only go if you want to go to events/occassions.  Otherwise, don't waste your time and don't give them the pleasure of being able to make you feel like crap.  If they say something nasty to you just smile and nod and say "Thanks for letting me know...I had NO idea..."  and then walk away.  They want a reaction out of you and if you respond politely and sweetly they'll either stop or get really pissed off.  My mother always taught me "Kill 'em with kindness"...and it works almost every time!
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Some people just don't feel good about themselves unless they try and make someone else feel worse. Screw em I say Karma's a bitch
61079
In my experience, most people that go out of their way to make others miserable are doing it to make themselves feel superior in some way.  If they cut down your clothes, it makes them feel better about how they're dressed.  If they point out how miserable your life is, it makes them feel like theirs must not be so bad.  Not a way I want to go through my life.  Spread the joy!
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people make themselves happy - trying to make someone else happy is like screwing for virginity
197878
whatever makes you happy.
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The good news: yeah we all feel this way.  The other good news: there's a way to get your way, get people to move their lazy asses, and not come off sounding rude, obnoxious, or like a psycho crank from hell.  All these answers have one thing in common: passive-aggressive hostility, bordering on actively aggressive hostility, with a more than a dash of sarcasm and verbal abuse thrown in as well. (Shoving a sausage up someone's vagina?  That's rape, and that's sick, sad and WRONG.)  \n\nI'd be surprised if anyone actually did what you wanted them to do if you address them so rudely and disrespectfully.  And there's a possibility you could get yourself beaten up or killed if you keep going the way you are going.  I suppose it all depends on whom you say this to as well.  Do you speak this way to a 300-lb leather-clad motorcycle dude, or an older man who's taller than you, or just to women and children and homeless guys down on their luck?  \n\nPeople since ancient times have been decrying "O tempora! O mores!" (O the times, o the behavior!)  We all want what we want when we want it, and not all of us are enlightened, sympathetic, empathetic or upstanding enough to think of ourselves and others at the same time.  Given that, it is up to the individual to uphold the social contract NO MATTER if other people do or not.  If you know to do good and don't do it, you are no better than the people you criticize.  In fact, by being rude, mean and obnoxious, you may be much worse than these people.  Everyone, after all, makes mistakes, has a bad day, forgets.  YOU make mistakes.  YOU have bad days.  YOU forget.  No one -- including you -- is perfect.\n\nI recommend The Paradoxical Commandments by Kent M. Keith.  The book is titled _Anyway_.  Some gems include: People are illogical, unreasonable and self-centered.  Love them anyway.  If you do good, people will accuse you of selfish ulterior motives.  Do good anyway.  If you are successful, you will win false friends and true enemies.  Succeed anyway.  The good you do today will be forgotten tomorrow.  Do good anyway.  Honesty and frankness make you vulnerable.  Be honest and frank anyway.  \n\nAnd by the way, "frank" here doesn't mean honesty and telling it like it without tact or discretion or feeling for others.  It means being honest with sensitivity, compassion and empathy.\n\nLike my momma always told me, you can catch more flies with honey than with vinegar.  Peace, K
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I suppose you get some kind of smug satisfaction or a feeling of vindication if this person had wronged you.\n\nYou may also get a slander or libel lawsuit as well.
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in that particular case, I would smile real big and mouth the words "thank you"  kill rude people with kindness, I like doing that because it really pisses them off lol  There really isn't much you can do with people like that, you can stoop to their level or rise above.  Good luck!
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GOOD QUESTION!\nI think that if each person does one good thing to someone else, then everyone would benefit from both, getting something and knowing that you have given to someone who is in need. Close your eyes and Imagine that you live on the streets, with nothing to eat, one suit of clothes, and it is dreadfully cold/hot. you see people driving /walking pass you, pretending that you don't even exist. How would you feel? Many people do things out of bitterness and the need to survive. the little that you do would definitely make someones day. So yes I do think that it is our duty, even in the smallest ways, you can make a difference.
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More than smile, I gave great laughs to my best friend, whose MS and other, massive health problems cause her enormous frustration in dealing with multiple doctors.  This week alone, she has had appointments with her cardiologist, neurologist, allergist, and psychiatrist.  She has had two new prescriptions -- one of which the pharmacy completely screwed up, and if anyone had just cause for self-pity, I believe she does.\n\nBut I hate self-pity and see it as destructive.  Fortunately, so does she. So, today, I helped her set plants in her yard, furthering new life, and entertained her with jokes and songs and lunch.  If anyone needs to laugh more, it's Beth.  I even got her to laugh about migraines.