Wednesday, November 05, 2008

All actors are over 18 years of age

scha·den·freu·de     (shäd'n-froi'də)
n.   Pleasure derived from the misfortunes of others.

[German : Schaden, damage (from Middle High German schade, from Old High German scado) + Freude, joy (from Middle High German vreude, from Old High German frewida, from frō, happy).]

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I spend karma points whenever I experience the above emotion. I am usually empathetic. I try to walk in other people's shoes. Really. Rallly, I dew.

But today, I feel schadenfreude for all those nice people that have sported Bush/Cheney bumperstickers for the last eight years, and the McCain/Palin - NoBama bumperstickers and yard signs recently. I am happy that they are sad.

Also, my stalker friend with the no-contact order had his house totally burgled last month. Every thing was stolen from his gated compound. His dog was chloroformed and no one paid attention to his honking watch geese. I am gleeful that this crazy man, this paranoid, this authority-hating man was stricken.

He has no idea at all how much he harmed, how much he stole from me.

Maybe this is only some slightly delayed Instant Karma for him.

2 comments:

Knitting Linguist said...

Some days, schadenfreude is good :)

Mouse said...

I was super happy that Obama won until I started looking around the web in comments, forums, etc and realized that the searing hate from the other camp has already gone to talk of "stocking up on ammo" and "lock & Load" -- also some really nifty comments concerning "buying rope" and preparing for the "reckoning". *crawls under desk* All this for electing a president with a working brain. *sigh*