Thinking today about this very topic.
I've had a rough week with a very ugly, verbally abusive person, who no longer lives here but is now having someone else harrass me by phone. The police have been involved and it's really been rather stupid.

But it did bring home to me how miserable some people can make themselves. They have groundless fears and get crazy mixed up ideas about what is going on around them and then they attempt to draw others into their craziness. They try to make others as fearful and unhappy as they are - to pull them into their drama. And when it doesn't work, some of them can become very agressive and angry. The woman I have been dealing with may well end up being committed sometime in the not too distant future, she is an extreme case but nearly everyone does this to some degree. She has been a learning experience by presenting an over exaggeration of the behavior. She has made herself miserable, has made others miserable and is now trying spreading it elsewhere. It didn't have to be that way. She created it.

This is making me more dedicated to creating something good, everyday.