Calling all readers, bloggers, fans, friends and stalkers. Please take a moment to reflect on this post today and get back to me in the form of a comment directly under my quotes. I am serious. I am looking for honest tried and true strategies that help you cope with others who are trying to get in the way of your happiness. I have had several conversations with friends lately about people who sap the joy out of your life. People who don’t speak to you for one reason or the other, but unfortunately, you still have to see these people. People who are so rude, you would really like to pull a “Moonstruck” moment on them (I have mentioned this before, and sometimes I even refer to it as a “Homey the Clown” feeling). Some people refer to this as good vs. evil or the yin and yang theory.
Every person has this two elements inside fighting it out…the good person has the element of evil that might arise when he is threatened, but knows how to control it. Likewise the evil person has moments of good as well. Usually, the good person allows the bad to strengthen his/her nature and does things like ignoring the bad behavior and turning the other cheek. If I were an artist, I would draw it like this:
If you read the words in this picture, you get the feeling that these evil folks are primarily unhappy people. My friend and I think that one of the best ways to deal with these types of people is to keep speaking to them. On some level, that is difficult, I know. If you have other advice, please begin to dispense it now.
“He who passively accepts evil is as much involved in it as he who helps to perpetrate it. He who accepts evil without protesting against it is really cooperating with it.” ~Martin Luther King, Jr.
A two quote night:
“The world is a dangerous place to live; not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don’t do anything about it.” ~Albert Einstein