Being around people who are constantly negative and who can not see the good in anything is a real bummer.
We all know the feeling of being in a good mood and laughing your way through the day, when suddenly, someone shuts you down completely. While we all have bad days and sometimes others’ joy just seems to add to our own despair, it is not one bad day that defines these people.
It is when everything in the world seems negative and when there is nearly nothing good coming out of their mouths.
“I like being around other positive and fun people; it keeps me in a good mood throughout the whole day,” Gracie Taylor said.
Being around people who can keep the same energy as you and increase your mood with one smile are the people that you most want to surround yourself with. The friends who feed into your delusions, but also tell you when you have gone too far.
It is hard when someone is constantly just shutting you down, or cannot seem to find the good in anything.
“It is hard to be around negative people and maintain a good mood. I just try to keep them smiling and stay positive myself, but it is a bit of a mood killer,” Taylor said.
Not all of these people try to be such downers, sometimes, they do not even realize that they are doing it. They try to keep people’s feet on the ground and keep them from floating into a sky full of delusion.
The only thing about this is that it does not always come off in the way it is intended to and it ends up doing more harm.
We have all had those days when we are beaming bright and it seems as though nothing can tear us down, until we get in contact with the wrong person, and suddenly our mood is morphed.
People are like chameleons, we morph into who we hang out with. Even if it is not someone we are often around, switching our mood to match others is a basic human trait.
When someone is in a good mood, it is easy to cheer up with them, making jokes and smiling their way through the day.
With this being said, it is also the same as when someone is in a bad mood. When they are just so grumpy that they have to make it everyone else’s problem. It can be easy to get caught up in the way of their emotions and their grouchy behavior.
“I succumb to people’s emotions a lot more than I would like to, if I am being honest,” Jess Moser said.
Being young can play into this, too. Not knowing how to control your emotions yet or not let others tear you down, is one way to succumb to the stress and peer pressure of others.
It is almost like you have to feel that emotion to fit in with the current mood of the class or wherever you may be.
“I feel that after hanging out with people who are always negative for a while, you start to become that way too,” Moser said. “I had a friend who was constantly bringing me and others down and just could not see the bright side of anything. A little while into our friendship, I started to act that way, too.”
I have had friends who have brought me to be negative, much like Moser, and it made me feel like a terrible person for always killing the mood.
Especially when you are so caught up that you can not see just how negative and rude you are being.
Getting out of friendships like that essentially led me down a better path and life. While it was one of the best decisions I have made, it was also one of the hardest.
There are different types of people who always think negatively, and the ones you want to leave are the ones who do it out of habit and make it their whole personality, rather than the ones who do not know any better.
Some people have seen harder times and lived through things that we can not name, and while some of them come out the most positive people you will ever know, others come out the most negative.
There is more to these people than the negativity. Though they are not negative in ways that harm others or make them feel horrible, but in ways that keep you more “down to earth.”
Not letting delusions fly or slip, almost like they have lost hope.
Those are the type of negative people that you want to keep and help overcome the negativity.
No matter what someone else’s mood is, always stay positive and try to bring others up rather than down.
