Belle
was a professional player of "Poor Little Me" and won big--she was
alone most of the second half of her life. She didn't have any friends
and her family had left her a long time ago. When she died and her
brother was told  he answered, "So What?"

She
was the youngest of 7 children of immigrant parents who worked 24/7 to
give their children an education. Getting only hand me downs to wear and
worn out books to read, not to mention being picked on by her 6
siblings, Belle learned how to play the "Poor Little Me" game very
quickly. At first it gained her a lot of attention from people outside
of her family but, like most game players, they got tired of her being
so negative all the time.

Belle married
Stan when she was 17. He was also from a family headed by immigrant
parents who believed in education and he learned as much and as fast as
he could. He knew one of the aspects of winning in the business world
was having a family and he started as soon as he could by marrying Belle
and getting  her pregnant. Stan was ambitious and hardworking,
consequently he wasn't at the birth of his first child, being busy
working, giving Belle the chance to continue playing her game and
complaining to anyone who would listen.

When
Stan became successful financially he bought his family a home in the
suburbs and Belle cried to everyone that he was taking her away from her
parents and siblings who were 45 minutes away. Doing good, having
luxuries, didn't play into her game so Belle started to claim poverty,
that they would wind up in the poorhouse which her family knew wasn't
true and would cause a lot of confusion among her children who would see
their father having the best of everything and giving the same to his
wife and children while their mother cried poverty.

By
the time Belle was 40 Stan had left her to marry a younger, more
sophisticated woman, having grown very successful in business and
needing a woman he could be proud of on his arm whereas Belle relished
being the poor little woman from the lower east side not appreciated by
her husband. With her parents dead by now her sisters and brothers just
couldn't handle all her moaning and groaning, especially since she had
more of everything than they did and soon turned their back on her.

In
quick time her eldest son left, got married and had children of his own
but would not allow his mother to bring her negativity against his
wife  to his children, consequently she would never see her
grandchildren which allowed her to play poor little me to the hilt. At
seventeen on the night of her school prom Belle's daughter eloped and no
one in the family ever saw or heard of her again. Last, but not least,
her youngest son felt he was being smothered by his mother and moved in
with his father and stepmother, never wanting to see his mother again.

Belle
didn't hesitate to play her "Poor Little Me" game to whatever family
she had left, her friends and any strangers she met.  For a woman who
had everything materially she lost everything else and she won her game.

Belle
was like many other people in the world in the sense that the unhappier
she was the happier she was--being a winner in the game of "Poor Little
Me", by losing everyone in her life, allowed her to feel sorry for
herself and wallow in self pity which is what the "Poor Little Me" game
is all about.

Like all people who are
not okay with themselves you can tell by their blog posts, and the woe
they throw out with a false bravado, how sad they are and not succeeding
at hiding it from the reader because how else could they play the
game?!