Celebrated poet D.H. Lawrence once wrote "I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself. A small bird will drop frozen dead from a bough without ever having felt sorry for itself."
It can be argued that this is a big reason why so many people love and respect animals way more than fellow members of their own species. Animals appear to be too busy living to really care about garnering sympathy.
A deer that gets shot by a hunter but manages to limp away and survive has one thing on its mind: living. A monkey that watched their friend get electrocuted and then worked for 20 minutes to revive them probably wasn't concerned about feeling sorry for themselves that such a tragedy befell them: they just wanted to bring their fellow primate back to life.
However, when it comes to human beings, there's no shortage of individuals who are quick to cry "woe is me" and opine endlessly about their misfortune. Whether it's to their friends and family members during every other conversation, phone call, and text message exchange, to their very public social media pages, we all probably know someone who is constantly looking for sympathy for themselves.
And while it can be kind of difficult and downright depressing in order to have to deal with folks like this on a daily basis, they're generally harmless, just buzzkills.
But what happens when whatever they're trying to garner sympathy for is (a) untrue and (b) throws other people under the bus in the process?
That's exactly what this mom said...
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