Throughout life, we come across all different types of people, some who are friendly and warm and others who are about the exact opposite. Here are 500 words on how to deal with negative people you’ll come across in your lifetime, and how to not let others' personal rain clouds dampen your day. We’ve all been in situations where someone has said something to us, and our exact thought was “did they actually just say that to me?” What I’ve learned, through my own and others experiences, sometimes the best thing to do is not to say anything back. Play it dumb like Karen from "Mean Girls," and keep it moving.
Mean girls are everywhere, from kindergarten even to college and years beyond that. You can be 32 and work in an office, yet still come across some mean girls who haven’t let go of catty attitude that they may give you.
Practically everyone has heard the saying, “If you have nothing nice to say, don’t say anything at all.” All right, we can all see the logic in that, like I've mentioned before, sometimes it's better not to say anything at all. But sometimes when you're dealing with mean girls, you have to defend yourself. I'm all for some verbal sparring and letting someone know your not to be walked over like a carpet. If someone is being extremely and consistently rude to you, you can be firm and respectful all the while defending yourself. Go ahead, tell that mean girl to kindly shut up.
Or not so kindly depending on how your feeling.
We can all recognize the signs when someone else is agitated (or when they're just being plain rude), the sighs, the eye rolls, the impatient tones and body language. When it's directed at you for no apparent reason can have you questioning, “What did I do to you?,” when you could've just been someone victim of the day on the impatient rampage through their day. Sometimes you really just have to put a smile on your face and take the high road. At the end of the day, their rude facial expressions will give them wrinkles, so don’t stress it or one day you'll regret it.
In elementary school it was necessary to get invited to all the birthday parties, no one wanted to be the odd kid in class who didn’t get an invite. It was practically what some would call "social suicide" (pretty sure those are also words of Blair Waldorf). Now that we're all grown up, no one really cares if they didn’t get an invite to a party or not. Why bother getting hurt over not being invited when you can have your own party? Especially nowadays where you can literally make you a national holiday for everything? (Ex: National Sibling Day, National Pancake Day. The list goes on and on.)
