How come one peers have such a hard time w kudos?

I noticed that when someone is down or losing, they'll get a lot of support. Positive input, y'know, even if it is not always "kind". Its like seeing someone sad triggers some people to try and lend a hand. Then on the other side of the coin, when someone is doing really great, its less common that people chip in their kudos. Its like people, even those who aren't doing well, expect the default setting to be "doing good". I noticed that hearing about someone doing good makes certain types of mindsets feel bad about themselves, sooo maybe that's something about it. Its just someting that has been on my mind and I'm wondering where you land on the topic of how come people post and reply in the one case (sad brain people) and not on the other (people talking about doing things to expand themselves)?

Kudos to you since this is probably your first non troll post ( there- you did something good and im supporting it )

Anyways its really simple imo - what you described happens mostly @ people that shift the blame from themselves and project it onto someone thats doing well in life, its probably the oldest self-fuck programmed in our brains. When you give in to excuses instead of motivation there s no way you progress ... Yeah you can say its easier said than done, problem is most people don't even acknowledge that they re doing it hence the delusion

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-serving_bias