misery

This should'nt take too long.
I'm slightly less toothy - got my wisdom teeth out today. It went absolutely fine - although the anticipation was horrible (the nurse had to give me a 'happy pill' to relax me) - combined with a 6 o'clock wakeup and not being allowed to eat or drink for a number of hours - it was fine. My face is less swollen that I thought it would be, there certainly isn't any excruciating pain, I was in and out in a few hours.
This isn't really a story then, is it.
And note, I've even added a few minimal bad things, purely to embellish my nonexistant story, to give it more bulk (early wakeup, needed a happy pill, etc.)
It would be a lot more interesting (for the unconcerned individual) if the doctor took out the wrong tooth. Or did some horrible damage.
It would be a lot more interesting if it wasn't a story about how miraculous medicine is these days - that surgeons can keep you alive in a semi-coma with the flick of a switch, so that you don't feel pain - and you wake up, and they've managed to pull out four of your back teeth, and stitched the gums up.
Or, as was the case last year, shoved three metal rods into your shattered wrist to help it heal. Again, minimal pain for what it was (and there again, I've inadvertently gone back to a horrific image story)
I wonder why this is. Humans obviously revel, in some way, in other's misery. Maybe a Jeremy Kyle-style "phoar - I'm glad I'm not her!" scenario.
Newspapers and websites get a lot of slack for digging out the most 'orrible 'eadlines (The Sun: Boy, 9, Dies After Stabbing. The Guardian: Rain Brings More Mysery to Haiti. BBC: Repentant Woods Sorry For Affairs - to name a few).
But it sells, and unfortunately, newspapers have to sell, especially these days, as so many papers are folding (do you know anybody who buys a paper every day?)
Humans are attracted to misery, it seems. Depressing as it is, this is what we want to see, or read about, or hear about.