I'm sure we've all met mean-spirited, ignorant people who live to make others more miserable than themselves.
They are in our private lives, our professional lives, and heck, some of us are even related to them. You wonder what motivates them to behave in such a way. Was it their upbringing? Is it in their DNA? Did they come by it from the company they keep? Is meanness contagious? Such questions haunt the cosmos.
Bullying people damage and maim souls. They inflict pain on anyone who is unfortunate enough to be in the area when ignorant egos flare and inflate. I had an uncle, long since dead, who was one of these folks. He was arrogant, nasty, and very unkind to people he felt were beneath him (which was just about everyone.) He was also quite wealthy and I think this is why people let him get away with his atrocious behavior. Perhaps they worried about the influences he could bring down on them. I think he was just an intimidating bully. God got him in the end, tho'. He dropped dead in a California hotel room while he was there on a business trip. I think he was 52 or 53 at the time: his siblings lived decades longer. I truly believe his personality poisoned him. You know that old New England saying--"What goes around, comes around." Ain't that the truth?
