I've changed my name to keep this as anon as possible.
Basically 8/9 years ago I was young and stupid, made loads of mistakes, ended up living in a council house on a rough estate with a baby and no money. Made the mistake of getting involved with the locals and after a brief friendship, fell out with one of them. This woman then went on to make my life HELL. She took the piss out of me, threatened me with violence, reported me to council continuously, reported me to the social services, spread rumours about me and other people's husbands that almost saw me beaten up whilst pregnant and eventually turned the entire estate against me. It caused me severe depression, anxiety, stress, a suice attempt...most of whilst was whilst I was carrying DD2.
I nagged and nagged at the council until they moved us which eventually, after 2 yeas of absolute hell, they did. I moved away from the lot of them, later split with my partner and made a new life for myself as a single parent. I still lived in a crap area but kept myself to myself, everything was fine.
4 years later I bumped into this bitch woman at a kids party. I tried to blank her but she called me over and was all pally I found out she was still living in the same area but had had so many neighbour disputes, she had had to move 3 times in the past 4 years Anyway, despite her offers of renewed friendship, I kept my distance.
3 years after that, I found work, moved to a lovely area, my kids are in good schools, I'm happy and everything is great. Without giving too much away, I now work in mental health.
Anyway, guess who walked in today? I wondered what on earth she was doing there until I realised she was a patient.
Again, without revealing who she is or where she is etc...I found out that since our last 'meeting' her 'partner' (who was also a first class bastard to me and my ex) has ended up in prison. Her 8 year old has been expelled from school. She has had to move entirely from the area she lived in due to more neighbour disputes. She is heavily involved with the social services and she is deeply unhappy.
The point of this post...I was glad. I was happy to see her like that. I'm glad her shitty chavvy 'man' is back where he belongs. I'm glad her kids are not the perfect human forms she expected them to be. I'm glad she has no money. I'm glad she eventually got done for taking drugs. I'm glad her neighbours forced her out of the area like she did to me. I'm glad she's depressed.
It makes me so happy to see her like this. Due to my personal issues with her I got someone else to deal with her but when she saw me she asked how I was lately and I said "I'm brilliant" and I couldn't help smiling. And she knew what I was smiling at.
I then came home to my nice home, great kids, nice neighbours, no debts, secure income and I've been smiling ever since. I hope she rots.
Ok, so now you can all tell me how terrible I am. How my 'luck' may run out. How unprofesional I am. How bitterness and hatred doesn't help anyone....but does ANYONE understand how I feel or am I really, really horrible?