How do you handle negative people?

As much as possible, everytime I have a negative experience, specifically having an encounter with a negative person, I handle them the same way I try to handle everyone - with positivity.

That person may be coming from a place of difficulty, may have had a challenging experience prior that we may not know about. Or they even might not realize that their actions can cause such. To begin with, someone or an experience that we see as “negative” may not be seen the same way if you ask other individuals. 

Nevertheless, let us first approach everybody with positivity. We may not know what they are going through. And maybe, our positivity is what they would need to change their outlook. Also, we may tend to be negative as well, but have yet to notice it. If that is the case, how would you want to be handled?

The saying: “Kill them with kindess.” might apply here. 

Easier said than done tho. And it may even come to a point, that another person’s actions may irk us too. It is normal if we would feel such but this would be the time that we must extend patience. To always at least try to be the better person. To look at things at a bigger perspective. 

At the end of the day, how other people treat us is something that is out of our control. But how we treat others, how we react to other people is something that we can control, and it would be one of the things that can define us as a person.


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