Backing away

[ostarella]

I'm seriously considering dropping off the net for a while. At least, not paying as much attention to various sites and blogs as I have been. I'm finding that there are altogether too many truly negative people. People who have a certain mindset and won't even listen, let alone change; people who complain about their lives and then unapologetically do more of the same things that caused their troubles; people who just can't find anything good to talk about. Even if I don't engage in conversation with them, that negativity seeps into my thinking. So I'm not going to pay attention to most of the blogs I've been watching, and I'll check the various groups to see if there's something I *need* to do (which does not include commenting on anything I'm not directly responsible for), but otherwise I'm going back to my normal state of non-involvement with anything other than my close friends and my own life's interests. Insular, perhaps, but definitely much happier and more productive.

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[ostarella.livejournal.com]

Yeah, there are people who want to be victims so they'll get attention, and there are people who have had a bad experience and let that color their whole life. And then there are others whose whole philosophy of life is anger at the world, fear that what they have will be taken away, fear that someone else might be happier than they are... so many excuses for being negative. Even their happiness is almost in defiance - "I'm happier than you in my squalid little world of anger and jealousy - so there!"

It's just sad, really.