One man's misery is another man's joy

Just like one man's garbage is another man's treasure, this topic is about the inconvenience brought about by selfishness of other people.

When you steal something from someone, you put that person in a state of inconvenience or even misery. You sell what you stole thus gaining a certain level of comfort from that. But this also brings emotional and financial discomfort to the victim.

People strive hard to earn a living. Although the same thing is applicable to thieves, the difference is that thieves trouble other people to earn their living.

"Nothing personal, just business," is a catch phrase commonly used in movies when villains, or some times heroes, confront their enemies. This reality is experience everywhere especially by those hounded by credit collection agents like myself.

Collection agents have a job to convince debtors to pay their dues with which they had committed to take responsibility for. The debtors' time, on the other hand, is wasted by the long calls as they either evade or haggle with the agents on the terms of payment or amount to be paid. Some agents go to the extent of insulting the debtors and in a similar manner, debtors also gravitate to insulting the agents. Even though both have responsibilities they committed to take, either of both tend to become confrontational with the other to the point that if ever they be talking face-to-face, someone would probably throw the first punch.

In both legal and illegal activities, there is always a winner and a loser and it is always rare to find oneself in a win-win situation.