YouTube / iTunes / Spotify / Radio Public / Pocket Casts / Google Podcasts / Breaker / Overcast
Listen to ArtisanEnglish.jp posts & lesson intros here.
Proverb: Misery loves company
Misery loves company.
It may be true; unhappy people may want other people to be miserable, too.
Perhaps this is why unhappy people always tell younger people to settle down, get married, buy a home, and have lots of kids.
Who knows?
Misery loves company is a proverb that means unhappy people want other people to be miserable, too.
Maybe in English, we have the proverb misery loves company because when people are unhappy, they want to be around other people who are also unhappy.
Negativity is contagious.
On the flip side, positivity is also infectious.
If one person is miserable, the people around them tend to catch the infection and become unhappy, too.
Positivity can overcome misery, and because it is infectious, everyone will climb out of their misery.
When everybody feels the same, we feel more comfortable.
This may be why when someone has a bad day at work, they come home unhappy and fight with their family at home.
The proverb misery loves company may be true, or it may not be true.
I prefer to maintain a positive attitude and make the best of a bad situation.
Have no misery at all.
Flesch-Kincaid Readability Test
This post is understandable by someone with at least a 9th-grade education (age 15).
On the Flesch-Kincaid reading-ease test, this post scores 59.
The easier a passage is to read, the higher the score on a scale of 0 – 100.