What causes someone to be mean? To take advantage of someone else's weakness? Of their ignorance? Do they get a rush of endorphins from the power trip? Do they feel relatively higher when they push others down?
Why do people make fun of others? Make them the butt of inside jokes? Do they feel special, part of an exclusive club?
It can be teachers, students, coworkers, bosses, subordinates, family members, neighbors, employees in community stores, or even strangers. It can be a part of nearly every conversation or baked into the curriculum of your classwork or superfluous side work at your job, and so on. It can be constant, pervasive, like being attacked by a swarm of biting flies that you cannot escape, or sometimes stinging wasps, depending.
It can make life so difficult that you find it hard to hold a job or stay in school. You might find yourself experiencing crushing anxiety, and bouncing between frustrated anger and severe depression, often contemplating suicide. Perhaps you even checked into the hospital a couple times. Maybe it destroyed your marriage along with your mental health, career, and reputation.
Watching shows like The Office are painful for how awkward they are, but they are tolerable and funny because they are actors, not real people who are vulnerable and experiencing pain.
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