Saturday, March 5, 2016

Meaning of Schadenfreude

Schadenfreude  also known as epicaricacy  is pleasure derived from the misfortunes of others. This word is taken from German and literally means "harm-joy". It is the feeling of joy or pleasure when one sees another fail or suffer misfortune. It is also borrowed by some other languages. An English term of similar meaning (but with no noun equivalent) is "to gloat"; which means to feel, or express, great, often malicious, pleasure, or self-satisfaction, at one's own success, or at another's failure.

When you share your happiness it gets multiplied, when you share your sorrow it gets reduced. But  have you seen someone whose sorrow when discussed  can make him happy. Look at yourself in the mirror.

PM, Opposition, Media and now students all want  to share our sorrows and pain. And when they use this to get joy or pleasure in way of money, power etc.,  we listen to them and enjoy their speech and debate. They just talk for an hour  or so, but we talk for days together about this.

Take for example Arnab Goswami- We love to enjoy his command over the language, the way he controls the people, the way he shout at people, the way he talks for more than 90% of the time and the way he discuss our problems and use that to make the slot prime and make money out of this.

Modi is definitely a good orator and I expected that he will give a befitting reply to Rahul's speech. He did that too. But how many noticed that we the people were the laughing stock of their fight.  No toilets, digging pits and what not. Our misery was their joke. Half of the house laughed when he touched these points.

Rahul gave a fiery speech, Came prepared with points and fired the salvo. He too made mockery  of our plight. The other half laughed at us this time.

So the last two days made 500+ legislators, Goswami, Barkha's make fun of our condition and enjoyed the benefits.

People over and above 10 lakh of income will not get subsidy for LPG. Those earning 5 Lakh and above will not get PDS items. But these 800+  MP's (Both houses) enjoys  full veg meal at Rs.29/-. and chicken Bririyani at 34.00. Can anyone ever came forward and asked the question when  we will remove the subsidy we enjoy?

Yes, its we who suffer and but still pay cable charges to enjoy the fun they make on us. Intolerant who?  This word should be removed from dictionaries in India.

Once again: 
Schadenfreude  also known as epicaricacy  is pleasure derived from the misfortunes of others. This word is taken from German and literally means "harm-joy". It is the feeling of joy or pleasure when one sees another fail or suffer misfortune.




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