The neediest

Some people desperately need to be needed. 

Everyone thrives with attention, but there are people who believe that negative attention is more deserving than others.

They are the sickly ones, the ones who "work their fingers to the bone," the ones who always seem to be beleaguered by something or someone.

You and I may simply try to get through bad times like these, but there are people who thrive when they are miserable. They go out of their way to be put upon, to feel used, to look mistreated and abused. In fact, they egg it on.

Because they are never happier than when they are miserable.

Which makes them miserable people to be around.

That does not mean they don't have friends, or cheering squads. They do. These are the people they live for, the ones who fall into their "poor me" trap and egg them on.