Ambition.

How can people be entertained or even enraptured when those who generally succeed experience failure? It's more upsetting than enthralling to see those who try their utmost to attain whatever it is that they're after, fall short of their goals.

Success is something that one must earn. For example, nerds have to put in endless hours of studying to achieve the grades that they do. Someone who has not put in a comparable time commitment has no right to resent the studious for getting better marks. Moreover, he or she should be considerate enough not to gloat when the nerd has not reaped the outcome they had strived for.

Telling someone who really wanted something and tried their utmost to get it to be happy with what they've got and to stop complaining, completely disregards not only their commitment and effort but also their ambition.

Just because you lack ambition, does not mean that other people have the same outlook as you. I am not ashamed to say that I am ambitious. Unfortunately I failed to attain something that I had aspired to get for years, which I will never have another chance at. Of course, that is really upsetting. Knowing that others are happy that I failed at getting the one thing which I wanted more than anything I have ever wanted (which is saying a lot, because I tend to want everything), serves only to shatter even more. Thanks dickhead, for understanding how much I wanted this, and for appreciating the amount of effort I had invested to improve my chances only to attain no end result.