The older I get, the more I understand why people disappear into gardening, baking, reading, and long walks. Not because life got boring. Because peace became valuable.
People who take pleasure in the downfall of others are almost always relieving pressure inside themselves. Someone else’s failure gives their ego a brief sense of elevation - “at least I’m not them”, or “at least I was right”, or even “at least my suffering has company.” When a person feels fundamentally unfulfilled or powerless, watching others fall becomes a substitute for inner stability.
At a deeper level, what the delight in another’s collapse reveals is a mind trapped in scarcity. If your sense of worth depends on relative position - who’s up, who’s down - then someone else’s success feels threatening and their failure feels comforting. This is why genuinely grounded people don’t gloat. When someone is rooted in their own life, their own practice, their own work, there’s nothing to gain from another’s misfortune. Cruel satisfaction only appears where presence is absent and the self is still feeding on comparison instead of on real substance.
So…it seems that our friendly ghostly roommate has a preference for tv shows. Lol
If it’s not what they like they tune the tv to the Home Screen or just shuts it off. like really “Shiela” go mess with the kids now
#ghostfun#Itsagame
I am about to snap!! Every day I have off is the day my MIL decides to do her laundry. You have all these other days to wash your clothes and it just happens to be on my day off. Talk about frustrating. And yes, she does know when I have off. #frustratedworkingmom