I laughed out loud!
I laughed out loud when I read that again. I’ve seen it written so many times. “Avoid negative people.” HA! Well now, wouldn’t it be grand if we could? Most of the negative people in my life are close family members. My husband, my mom, my child, my brother. I’m definitely not getting rid of my family members! As a positive thinking person, I recognize my placement in my family and with friends. It’s to influence them to see the positive and to be the positive.
Although it can be tiring and emotionally draining at times, how will those negative people learn to see the positive, if all the positive people in their lives avoid them and don’t live as the positive example to follow? And so it is with you. Those negative people need you to be the positive example. To shine your positive light into their lives so they can see how it’s done. To see through you what it looks like to be positive, and how to see the good in situations and in others.
Be that example. They need to follow someone positive, so they can learn how to see the positive and not only the negative in everything. And teach them how great it feels to SMILE!
