Mocking? Joking?

You know it is interesting how people view you differently than how you view yourself. You can be under the impression you are one way, convinced of it and yet, somehow someone will talk to you and say something that is total opposite of you and leave you boggled. And confused. Wondering if that person knows you at all.

Other times, people mis interpret you and think one way of you and in reality you are the way you view yourself. Yet they think differently and condescend the life style you are leading or have led. I just don' t get it.

Why do people make fun of things that they themselves want in part for themselves? Is it out of jealousy that they know they cannot have therefore they should belittle it and it should look foolish? They might not want the entire entity, just a small fraction of it, but it is so beyond their reach that all they can do is mock it so badly that they themselves would not want it anymore and would make you rethink why you want it. But then, they in reality are desiring it but cannot have it.

Is this human nature? To belittle those who have what you can only desire? Do I do the same on a different level?

It is interesting to think that way. To laugh off what you can't have. To laugh off what you want to have, but can't. I understand it. It makes sense. But you know what? It hurts the one who is being laughed at. The one who is being made fun of. It hurts. It reflects personality that are not pleasant and resentful. It hurts where it can hurt a friendship. One must be careful how much mocking is done, otherwise other things will turn funny...