How important is it to distance yourself from toxic people?
Life is all about people and more than that you have a different variety of people around you. So basically, sometimes you have a choice to pick up good friends and the other times you don’t even know that you are with toxic people. We can’t live without interacting with anybody. The most introvert person also has at least one friend or confide in one of the parents. These people influence our thoughts and actions. They can be good or bad. So how important is it to distance yourself from toxic people?
Toxic people can be in many ways
A good company keeps you happy and you are thankful for it. But a bad company keeps you, even more, happier than you expect. You take time to realise that you are affected by toxic people around who are slowly poisoning you. Who are these toxic people in your life:
- Opportunist friends – These may be good to you but they are always in seek of some opportunity. If they help, they expect a favour in return. Such people are not your true friends but poisoning your life slowly.
- Cunning friends – Such friends are quiet. They laugh with you and share your joys but are secretly jealous of you. They are not happy for you and will never be. You take time to know this fact and by that time, you lose so much. These are the most dangerous kind of friends as they wear two faces.
- Show-off friends– Don’t you feel suffocated with them? They just talk of themselves and nothing else. Even when you try to intervene or change the topic, they cut off in between and you end up listening to them. These are like parasites, just sticking around for no good.
Distance from such toxic people
People around you do affect your life in some or the other way. It is important to detach yourself from toxic people as soon as you know about them because
- They spread negative energy around you. Depressive people can only see the wrong in everything. There’s no hope in them and so are you depressed if you are with them.
- There’s no purpose to their life except criticising people. You waste your time in talking bad about others or cooking up baseless stories about them. Instead, you can use your skills to do something purposeful in life that is also helpful to society.
- You don’t realise but you have also become one of them. Life becomes a punishment and you lose interest in all.
- Everything becomes stagnant and you feel like a failure.
What happens when they are gone?
It is utmost important to distance yourself from such toxic people as soon as possible. You will be grateful to live once you detach yourself from all of them. A ray of positive hope blossoms within you and everything looks promising.
Do you have any toxic people in your life? Don’t worry, I am not telling you to name them but just take them out of your life. During the self-isolation period, you have time to make a list and delete them from your memory forever.
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Its important to stay away from people ideas and things that cause us discomfort. Toxic people included. Its difficult but has to be done …
So true. This is important to maintain peace. Thanks you Archana.
I distanced myself from all toxic people and now I’m alone 🙂
You are alone but sane. It’s better to be with like minded people or be alone but satisfied.
Thanks
We are definitely better off without the company of such people. I’m in total agreement. We have to cut them out of our lives before they start to pull us down.