Tuesday, December 21, 2010

Thought 156: Dealing with difficult people


This world is made of all kinds of people. There are friendly persons; there are hostile persons too. The hostile persons do not conform exactly to your standards of good behavior. They may not share your values also. Many of them may probably cause a lot of annoyance to you by their crude and insensitive behavior; may irritate you frequently; may constantly work to cross purposes; may be a little too loud to your liking; may even look incapable to you but succeed nevertheless. You find very often that you have to get on amicably with some or all of these types of persons - and this sets up stresses for you.

Many of these difficult people are belligerent for no reason. They try to bite you when you go near them – like wild animals. They are negative people. They are highly egoistic. They are arrogant – and think that they alone are right all the time. They look down and try to trample on you for no reason. Every body meets one or two of this type in their life time.

Actually the difficult people are very unhappy people. They carry some hurt inside – and when they do not know how to deal with this hurt, they turn belligerent. Most of the time, such persons are in a state of bewilderment; because of which, they deal with life in a state of confusion. When you are bewildered, you tend to take unnecessary positions and try to defend them, even if those positions are silly. And they never bother to correct themselves; they also do not endeavor to control their bellicose habits, which have entrenched themselves in their minds.

It is not easy to deal with difficult people. There are no tried and proven rules. This is a typical "dirty" problem. You have to deal with each difficult person on a trial and error basis.

The next thought is about “Acting without thinking”

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