Stop Actively Rooting For Other People's Failure

A lot has happened in the last couple weeks to spark this. I could make a never-ending list of issues I have with how society interacts, but this one in particular has been really bothering me lately. 

Stop rooting for other people to fail. It shouldn't be enjoyable to try and "take someone down" unless that person is an absolute piece of trash like Harvey Weinstein. Actively rooting against people more successful than you is such a sad way to live. Get to their point through successful moves on your part rather than trying to prey on their downfall.

In the sports world, this has been particularly true of late. The Urban Meyer situation made me really start thinking about this. People are more mad at Urban, who has not been proven of any wrongdoing yet, than Zach Smith, who actually beat his wife. That's really frustrating. Because Urban is a bigger, more successful name, people direct their rage and attention towards taking him down. If everything is proven true, he obviously deserves a lot of blame, but nothing he is accused of in this situation is worse than the crime of physically beating your wife. 

I think it's important to note that the easiest way to not have people try and take you down is to live a clean life. If you don't have demons, they never come back to haunt you. That part is pretty simple. And I get that everyone should be accountable for their actions, but there's something unsettling about the number of people who have been taken down in the last few weeks by old tweets and comments. AGAIN, they should just not say/do dumb things in the first place, but the notion that people are actively seeking out ways to take down other people really irks me.

There's no better example of this than what's happening in baseball right now. It all started with Josh Hader at the All-Star Game, and has now become a "thing". Whether it was Newcomb during his no-hitter, or Sonny Gray after a bad start yesterday, someone is sitting at home and typing in a player's Twitter handle and every offensive word they can think of in hopes of finding something to bury the player for. The tweets are bad and shouldn't have been published in the first place, but I'm strongly opposed to people who spend their days looking for ways to take others down. There's way too much good to be done out there to be actively looking for the bad in other people.