by QueenBeauty? » Mon Jul 07, 2014 9:15 pm
What you said Richard@DecisionSkills is very wise and sounds good to me. Yes changing my perceptions of people. I tend to be very negative and I admit it. The reason I am negative and tend to have trusting issues in people is because I've been betrayed many times when I was being a good person. I used to see everybody positively and try to understand why some people are mean and negative and I tried to help them. By being repetitively betrayed I started becoming tinted with lots of hatred and sadness. Once when I was being extremely nice to people someone came up to me and called me an idiot and said that if i continued being this way people would never respect me because in the modern world you gotta be cold and severe for people to fear you and respect you upfront and that no matter how nice I am people will always find a reason to talk behind someone's back.Also like I explained on this specific thread, what I grew up with didn't help because my parents were often negative and themselves had bad luck with people. Now I can say that it's not good to have a negative perception of everyone and to live in constant hatred because I do suffer in this and I do admit that I did mistakes in my life. I know that I am the one people often see as being sad, awkward and mood changing but deep down I know that despite my mistakes with people and the way I appeared is all linked to my past and what made me the way I am.
I try to be better and what I noticed helped me lately is to delete from my life people who don't get me or click with me.BUT keeping the ones who do care for me and ask how am I doing just like I do to them. I deleted those who don't bother talking to me when I come up to them or invite me anywhere because I am not like them. I want to surround myself with good people who went through a good life and past and perhaps even a bit of what I had so they can relate and understand me and together we can help each other. I can often relate to villains in some movies and I often have a fascination to understanding villains because often movies reveal why they became the way they are and what made them the way they are. I can relate to this. I try to bring the best out of me and fight that anger and frustration I often get. I want to help myself. If someone doesn't see my efforts or refuses to like me and the good part I am trying to show then in this case I should move on and be with people who bring and see the best of me. Like my husband : He knows I have issues and knows my past, but he sees that deep down I am a good person and am very generous. I just need to focus more on me and let go of negative people who aren't helping me bringing the best of me to life. I shouldn't care anymore of looks I get or how some people don't seem to like me. I should eliminate these thoughts and people from my entourage and mind because it's not healthy for me to become a better person inside and outside. My husband is a very nice person and has a huge heart, but his facial features often make people think he is mean and snob, but he isn't. They just judge without getting to know him. He knows that some people don't like him and don't give him the chance to know him better than just want they see in one conversation. But he says he doesn't have time to care because he prefers being with people and keeping people who took time to know him and like him. I would love to be this way and am working on it Richard. I will bring out the best in me, stop caring about other's opinion, looks toward me and focus on people who bring out the best of me this seems good and I will work on my perceptions. What I don't like about this society is that often when they see you aren't the same as everyone and do things differently they exclude you and start putting you in a category of people. I know plenty of people like me who don't like clubs, bars and having huge parties and these people are put in anti social categories, but it's not true we are not anti socials. We do socialize, but we simply don't need alcohol and partying all the time every week end. There are people who like playing videogames at any age, others like going outdoors in the nature like me, others who like partying we are all different, but I have to stop caring about other people's opinion and in what category some people put me in because of my hobbies and interests.