Life-force sucking
It’s no fun to be around negative people. It’s a wonder that what they so easily perceive as faults in others cannot be self-understood in themselves. I was referring to the types of conversations that these folks seem to generate when a friend described them perfectly.
“It’s a life-force sucking experience,” she said.
Exactly.
It’s so refreshing when someone captures in language an experience that has not been describable before. Conversations with negative people are “life-force sucking.” The sheer ability to put it in words almost gives one courage to endure the next experience.
If that wasn’t enough, the same friend contributed another winning thought seconds later. We were wondering whether negative people ever sense that they’re being negative and desire to change.
“I hope so,” she said. “Conviction is not a friendly reminder.”
Boom goes the dynamite. Two winners from one conversation about negative people. If you use either quote in your own conversation, just tell folks that “Emily came up with those.” And remember, keep negatives for old pictures…
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I believe these are the vampires of the world. No I haven’t seen any of the movies. I find these people exhausting, they aren’t happy unless they are sucking the life out of you and they live by it (it seems to be their life mission). These negative people in my life blame you and THEY REALLY feel they are doing nothing wrong. Oh and they will never change, they don’t know any other way of life. The last time I talked to my husband about them He had a heart attack, This is while I was going thru chemo therapy, we have young children so we are changing, so we can be around for them.