A sense of humour or an insensitive humour

I usually notice, when someone falls, slips or met some kind of misfortune, his own friends (and others) laugh at hapless person ( though they may be helping him to recover at the same time). Does not that tell that humans are generally sadistic in nature?

As Plato said: That we humans enjoy observing others' misery (Thanks Nitish).

But I am sure there is some other reason in such kind of humour, other than human sadism.

Humour is invoked when a seemingly natural course of action was going on, a sudden unexpected occurrence intercedes, and if the outcome is not fatal, then we feel relieved, and hence humour arises, because as we build our worries over the seemingly dangerous incident, but the outcome did not necessitate the worries, we have to release that tension of worries into something, in another form, so it gets transformed into concern and humour forms. Whether concern is higher or humour gets the better part, that would depend on many other factors like the mood, nature of incident, time of occurrence, etc.

So, don't feel guilty when you laugh at your friend's misfortune. After all, you are only human.

Never give someone the power to hurt you

Have I not always said humans are inherently masochistic? Why else then would we willfully give someone else the power to hurt us absolutely, and destroy us completely? The very fact that humans can and do love is enough proof that the thought and chances of getting hurt appeals to them so much that they fall in love, multiple times, sometimes all at once.

And then, they ask, foolishly, 'Why thus I suffer?'.

You asked for it, you idiot.

Temptations

I still do not know what I want; probably because I am too afraid to want, the past a tragic testimony of a series of unfulfilled...

Is it possible to have no wants? And if there is, should I aim for it?

Multiple times, and too many have I been burned by the fire of wants. And yet here I am. Such foolish thing we humans are. It would be good to expose ourselves to all such things that temps us; and to reject them as they come, so as to let them have no power over us, but rather to have our command over them.

Or Should I stay away from all that temps me? To be safely cocooned away? To not know what is good and pleasant, and let them not touch one's life so they could not do their harm on us.