How to Deal With Negative People?
Normally I talk about positivity and positive things in life.
Why am I then chosen this topic of how to deal with negative people?
Well, there are two reasons behind this, the first one being my own personal situation in which these day’s I am finding myself surrounded by many negative people, and the second one is that when I searched for this topic on I News India, I came through only one post on how to deal with negative people, which I in fact did not found that good or informative and hence decided to come up with a new post on it.
One of the simplest thought which comes in my mind frequently is why are some people always negative?
Hard to believe, but when you talk about watching a movie, the next guy near to your seat at office, will suddenly say that oh, this movie is bullshit. When you talk about eating out, the same gentlemen or girl will shout out that the food at this restaurant might not be that good.
Oh common, let’s talk some positive thing too…
Frankly, we all encounter such types of negative people around us. Read on this blog of mine to know why some people always are negative and how to deal with them.
Why Some People are Always Negative?
Well, we all are surrounded by many negative people. No matter if they are our relative, or colleague. One of the similarities which you can see among them is that they will complain about each and everything which they might have encountered in their life, or not even yet came through that.
Well, you all must have encountered guys who always remain unhappy about their life. You can simply identify them after seeing their sad face, but this time I am discussing about those guys who will look similar to us, will be found happy too at times, but on the same time, they will have all the negativity in whatever they will talk or do.
Well, to be very frank, I can say that not everyone’s life is a bed of roses. There might be some exceptional, but still ups and downs come in everyone’s life. No matter if you have more ups than down, or the reverse, but everyone will have to face the bad time in their life.
We might say that some people are luckier than others.
Well, to be very precise, what I identified as the reasons behind all this negativity is the fear. I guess this fear is something which might make someone negative for all time.
You might ask: what fear?
Well, there might be the fear of being lonely in their life, or fear of being disrespected, or fear of not being loved by others, or anything like some people might think that something bad will happen with them.
Other than these fears, a people might also have this tendency of harming others, or having jealous in nature, and just because of that he or she might also be displaying negative thoughts.
Another similarity which you might be able to find among all the negative people is that their nature of blaming others. They won’t ever think about their own fault, rather they will always try to blame all other things or external factors only.
If you analyze them closely, which I am doing these days, as I am monitoring them silently, you will find that they will always ignore any good things which will happen in their life, simply because if they do mind those positive things then they will have to change their negative attitude, which becomes hard for them. And hence they always remain in the same stage.
How to Deal with Negative People?
If you identify them closely, you will find that those people are a bit demanding in nature, and this is the reason why their demands did not matches with the expectations and they become negative in nature. Let me guide you all about how to deal with them:
Identify the Negative People
Without identifying them, it will always be difficult to deal with them, so the very first step towards dealing with negative people is to identify them properly.
Believe me there can be two instances, one in which a person is being sad because of some incident recently happened in his/her life. Second one in which someone always utters negative things only. You need to identify whether a person is falling into first types or in the second one. Obviously identifying the culprit is the first step towards rectifying them.
Incline Towards Positivity
As I mentioned above and also in my last post of how to deal with negative people, these negative people will have the tendency of ignoring the positive things happening in their life. They have some different eyes to look into any matter happening in their life, thus they make predicament look a lot worse then what actually it is.
So the point which I want to mention over here is to give them support, but when you see that they again returned back to the same stage of negativity, don’t engage with their negativity. Just try to ignore them a bit and make a safe distance from them, but then when you found some of the positive thing in them just grab the same and appraise the same, I am quite sure that the negative person will surely identify your enthusiasm and understand what exactly are you looking from him or her.
Support Them
Let me give you an example of a friend of mine, who seems fighting with so much negativity these days, just because she don’t have any job or source of income from such a long time. I sometimes became irritate too, but I never displayed my sign of irritation in front of her. I always made a safe distance from her, but never ignored her completely. I even tried supporting her in as many ways as possible, not financially, but emotionally.
I am quite sure you all must have encountered such type of friend or relative in your life as well. The point which I want to say over here is that they need support, else they will fall more into negativity.
Always provide them a person, who provides a listening to all their problems.
Spent Time with Them
As I mentioned in my last post as well, that the best way to bring them out of the negativity is to spent time with them. Especially spent time with negative people in a group.
Don’t know the reason why to spent time with negative people in a group, then do read this previous blog of mine on the same topic.
Act Cautiously
Unless and until the negative people being your spouse, or love, always remember that it is not your responsibility to deal with their negativity. But, since we human beings are so much dependent on our relationships, we can’t even eliminate them from our life.
At the end stage you might think about removing the negative person from your life, but in general it is not a good idea. Try to set boundaries for you, so that you can live your own life too in a better way.
It is not at all a good idea to become negative with them. It is you who should always take responsibility for your own happiness as well.
So the best way to deal with negative people is to act in a way that should not look like you are reacting for them.
I guess all the above points might help you to identify the negative people around you and deal with them. One last tip which I might also give you is to take them out for a movie or coffee, etc. and see that it might help them to come out from the negativity.
Do let me know if you like the post or not. Please do share your comment about this blog post of mine.
Very informative post !
But some time negative thing is good for taking risk . Whenever I am confused & not able to decide what to do , I asked by self if I take this decision what will be most negative thing going on happen, which helps me in taking risk.
Thanks Mahesh for reading the post and sharing your comment with us. I am glad that you like it.
Considering negative things is entirely different than giving the negative thoughts to everyone else. Just giving you an example:
You are traveling to some place, and you thought to choose a particular route, and out of sudden your friend will start saying so many bad things about that route, and unfortunately if you stuck in that route for any reason, he will start blaming you. Believe me, he is the Person who never tried that route, but started complaining about the same.
Consider watching a movie, and one of your colleague started saying all the bad things about the movie, despite being the fact that she never watched it.
Consider going out to eat dinner with your wife, no matter which restaurant you decide, you will find negative things about that from one of your colleague, although he himself never gone there.
So basically my blog post was about tackling those negative people only, who themselves never try anything new, but never stop them self to criticize the same too. I actually don’t like this approach of negativity. Rather your approach of asking yourself for all the negative aspect of a work is really good. This way at least you can remain alert about the problems which you might face ahead.
It’s really hard to deal with negativity . Negative minded people tend to let down your own soul along with them…you’ve nicely pointed out some solution..
Thank you Maniparna. I am glad that you like this blog post of mine. Thanks for appreciation.