Ignoring Mean People

There are some really mean spirited vindictive people in the world.

Ignoring mean people. Mean people can spread their negative energy so keeping your distance allows you to preserve a positive outlook. Ignoring can sometimes mean control. People who long to see you fail may even attempt to sabotage you then call you paranoid and crazy and will take great pleasure in any misgivings or misfortune that come your way. Sometimes ignoring someone means less stress if the person doing the ignoring is tuning out.

Many people who behave badly are dishonest liars and like to know everything. If you can t avoid them consider each encounter as a challenge for you to show compassion and practice patience. If you behave like that don t wonder why people are ignoring you. Ignoring people you don t like can be hard.

The danger of responding to a mean person is the temptation is to be more mean than them. Mean people do not give you the right to act mean. When ignoring is not an option and you have to respond consider the following. Being rude back will not help the situation.

You want to be polite even if you re ignoring someone. It s a waste of energy to try and figure out why. Just as mean people can spread negative energy you can spread the positive. You can ignore someone in a polite fashion by simply keeping your distance and ignoring negative behaviors.

Don t fight fire with fire. When we talk about someone who is a great friend we usually mean that the person is honest with us. You re crazy but the control may not be all bad. At school work or in your friends circle there may be someone you simply don t click with.