it's more like a bed of nails embedding into your flesh.
Why, do people get noticed only for the unpleasant things they do/get?
For instance, you don't see someone that helped an old lady cross the road appearing as the headlines on a news, right? You don't usually get as worked up when you're insulted than you are complimented, right? Your parents usually scolds when you skip school but don't really praise you when you go to school, right?
People usually take things for granted and that's for sure. When everything's right, you expect and demand more and more. Then when there's one setback, you'll get upset, you can't take it and you tend to blame the world.
Often enough, we forgot that the falls from better to worse sometimes is also part of our processes in life. When somebody's healthy and kicking, why don't we hear people asking the how-are-yous as often as to those they know that's ill? Why don't people love you as much as when you're leaving? Why don't people treasure the things they have as they have to let them go?
No wonder people seek the shorter route to get the attentions so badly nowadays.