{"id":18137,"date":"2026-01-28T05:16:00","date_gmt":"2026-01-28T10:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/?p=18137"},"modified":"2026-01-28T07:01:31","modified_gmt":"2026-01-28T12:01:31","slug":"at-times-like-these-when-enemies-can-number-more-than-friends-a-friend-indeed-is-what-i-need-not-someone-who-pretends","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/?p=18137","title":{"rendered":"“At times like these when enemies can number more than friends, a friend indeed is what I need not someone who pretends.”"},"content":{"rendered":"
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People who take pleasure in the downfall of others are almost always relieving pressure inside themselves. Someone else\u2019s failure gives their ego a brief sense of elevation – \u201cat least I\u2019m not them\u201d, or \u201cat least I was right\u201d, or even \u201cat least my suffering has company.\u201d When a person feels fundamentally unfulfilled or powerless, watching others fall becomes a substitute for inner stability.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At a deeper level, what the delight in another\u2019s collapse reveals is a mind trapped in scarcity. If your sense of worth depends on relative position – who\u2019s up, who\u2019s down – then someone else\u2019s success feels threatening and their failure feels comforting. This is why genuinely grounded people don\u2019t gloat. When someone is rooted in their own life, their own practice, their own work, there\u2019s nothing to gain from another\u2019s misfortune. Cruel satisfaction only appears where presence is absent and the self is still feeding on comparison instead of on real substance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n