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Does anyone else lack schadenfreude?
Schadenfreude - pleasure derived by someone from another person's misfortune
I guess the first time noticing this about myself is me being unable to get through "fail compilation" videos on YouTube leading me to find win compilations. Seeing other people get hurt or embarrassed rarely brings me joy.
Even when I think they "deserve" it.
Lets say a thief steals some merchandise from a store and on the way out they knock an innocent bystander over and they sprain their ankle. Imagine now 2 weeks later that thief gets caught by police while committing another theft because while they were attempting the robbery they sprained their ankle allowing the police to scoop them up. A nice little just so story about karmic revenge or whatever.
I can imagine all the comments underneath that short news story, the obvious jokes and and laughing emojis driven by the thief's comeuppance. While I am glad the thief lost in the end, it does not put a smile on my face or entice me to write a comment expressing my glee at someone's downfall.
No. In fact, I’m enjoying your apparent confusion right now.
In all seriousness, yes, I feel it sometimes. There’s this guy with whom I worked once or twice in college. We absolutely did not get along. I found myself unreasonably pleased when hearing other people admit they don’t like working with him. I feel no shame about this; it’s more like validation of my judgment. Now, I also felt smug when hearing he’d gone back to school as an early midlife crisis. That I’m not so proud of, because I can see it’s objectively…wrong. But I did feel it.
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