I hate seeing happy people.

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At times, yes I hate seeing happy people. As someone else stated if I'm in a particularly bad mood, and I see friends or significant others getting along well, it makes my mood worse. I am a very jealous person. However, if I'm happy myself I love to flaunt it to other people. Wow, I'm a horrible person aren't I? >_<

yeah, if i'm walking past a group of teens and they're laughing, i immediately assume they're laughing at me...i think that's a little bit of post traumatic stress disorder coming out.x

YES!

god I hate happy people. I hate when people are laughing. I tend to think they are laughing at me. Couples, I can't stand. It is like they are all flaunting it.

Yes, I am jealous.
Yes, I am depressed.
Yes, I am traumatized.
Yes, it is worse when I am moody.

it is too general a question for me to answer.
some types of "fun" are unsavory for me to witness.
i dislike the adverts on TV where everyone is having "fun". they promote people that have "fun" as more credible to represent their products.
like beer commercials where all the young drinkers are laughing at a party with girls hanging off them.
like tampon commercials where 3 young women who are all mucking around in their expensive apartment and getting ready for their night out and they grab the keys and step out into their convertible bmw and the passengers look at the sky in glee, and the driver is nodding her head to a song and laughing.

even bank ads show barbecues where almost everyone in the background is smiling or laughing and the kids are all having fun etc.

the thing that annoys me is that they use this image because the people at home actually like those people more and give more credibility to a product if it is being advertised by happy people. there are exceptions like funeral insurance etc.

there is a weather man in australia and he drives me insane with his default "happy as a lark" state.

so people associate people who are happy as "good" people and people who are just neutral as being cold and unfriendly and not nice.

but i do not want to see sad people. i would like there to be a few more people like me who are never happy or sad but always neutral.

i like to see people happy in circumstances like the nasa control room when a mars exploration vehicle touches down safely. i actuall am infected with that exhilaration too. it is for a very good reason to experience happiness like that.

also i like to see happiness of say starving ethiopians when the rains finally come and their plight is over. that is very real and infectious too.

but "coke ad" style "happiness" does not infect me or impress me.

Get over it. Every one should try and be happy and if you cant you shouldnt try and take the piss out of people that are.
It's naughty and you sit in a corner until you can be more reasonable and atleast make the effort to smile a little,
like this and if you cant you can go back

why should i "try" to be happy?
so it pleases other people?
so if i am not happy, then i must not only bear that burden, but i am also saddled with the obligation to be cheery so that other cheery people will be unruffled?

i think not.

smiling is mostly just faked grimmaces.

i think i am much more content than those who think they are happier than me and who think i "bring them down".
anyone who can be brought down by such a feeble force as the non participation of one person in the room is not securely happy.
they are flimsey grimmacers who desperately cling to a recipe that they have been indoctrinated with during their formative years.

laugh lines and smile lines are ugly. that is the only permanent residue of the "good times" when they age.
when their memories are all eaten away by dementia, their laugh lines will still prevail.

"happy smiling people holding hands" is a daffy and silly "floppy eared dog" song and
i think that the singers and musicians recording it would show me the way out of the building very happily if i wandered in.

i follow your "exit" icon with utter obedience.
i do not want to be in a crush of revellers.

b9:

I agree with you on that type of television commercial happiness. Their happiness appears fake to me but perhaps my sulleness appears just as fake to them. Why else would people think that I can change my mood simply by changing my outward appearances? I don’t understand them and they don’t understand me. The conflict is intractable.

Im sick of seeing happy people with their fairy tale lives. No one knows what people are going through. There are people starving, there are people who kill themselves, how can we be happy in a world filled with blood, hate and depression.

Easily. It comes from knowing that were our situations reversed, they would care not one bit about us.

I don't care. I'm happy, in spite of everything and to spite my enemies! and let them hate me 'cause I don't care whether they exist

Oooh, nice point!

I get that way, but I don't have enough true evil in my heart to properly bring them down. When I was a bit younger, I would cope with it by writing stories, often in comic book/manga form ,about people/creatures going through tragedy, with lots of "if you looked into their room, you'd see how miserable they all were" and panels with illistrations of their sad/grief-stricken faces.

tim bailey or the guy on channel 7? i cannot stand the guy on channel 7. he has the lamest jokes.

tim bailey. he is so trite and hackneyed.
"drips and drops across roof tops and crops"...erk.
"friday pop your head down so we can get a good look at what's behind you mate! yes it's a glorious saturday!! !" and garbage like that... all said with such a strained and constant grimmacing smile. if i were a young child again he would terrify me.

So do I. I've been doing that for far too long.

I, for one, understand how you feel.

I think the problem is that we worry that if other people are happy, then they don't mind our suffering -- they like a world in which we suffer. In the past, this has caused me to feel an element of sadism in the happiness of others.

But if happiness consists partly in having the energy and well-being to help people, then why would we want them to be sad with us? Maybe the answer is that in in happiness, there ought to be a feeling of necessity that accompanies one's desire to relieve others' pain, even if one is not feeling pain himself or herself.