In your experience, does misery love company?

Humans are social creatures. That rule must be understood to be primary. Once one understands that humans desire the company of other humans (however twisted), then logically, happy humans will be with other humans who are also happy and miserable humans will be with other humans who are also miserable.It isn't that "misery loves company" so much as ALL humans love company, even the ones who make company unwilling to be around them.

Do you know someone who is trying to make others as miserable as he or she is? Then you know you have a fellow human being there.

It appears to lead people to share the misery, but company doesn't seem to make it any less miserable...

Yes. It's my experience that people that are unhappy and miserable seek the company of others that are on hard times. I think it's the human experience that we seek others less fortunate than ourselves, and then try to befriend them or help them out.

If your a positive person, you will bring your new found friend up-to or beyond your present level. If you're a negative person, you'll keep them down by commiserating on, and on, and on.

Glad to see you are still around, Stu! Poppet! 14 months ago .

Not so much...I stop in every few days and your question just happened to catch my eye. ;-)I'm busy at able2know and Fluther. It's fun to ask the same question on different sites and see the difference in traffic, demographics and level of seriousness.

The traffic on Askville is so low that it's not really comparable, unfortunately. Can you imagine?!? I've asked questions on a2k that have 300 answers!

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I think so. You know the expression "Birds of a feather, flock together". Miserable people usually attract other miserable people.

The leader can not be miserable alone, they need followers to feel important.

Usually. People want others to know how it feels too. Jealous.

Yes. It's a natural tendency. Well, 'misery' is a burden and for some people they would like to lessen the load by sharing it with others, friend or stranger as the case may be.

There are many degrees of misery, or unhappiness, such as the great loss of a loved one who is now gone out of your life, or you're just sitting at home with a broken ankle and not liking any of it. A burden shared is half a burden! ;-) .

However, some misery hates company and just want to be alone dammit! .

I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.