Dealing with Negativity

January 1, 2015


2015, wow! Well, one thing's for sure, I certainly learned a lot in the past year, and I expect to achieve much  more in the coming year. I'm taking a psychology course, and it's all about negative people pressing your buttons. They try to draw you into their negativity, because they're not feeling good, so they bother you. So, if you write, they don't like that you have this resource, so they start criticizing and arguing with you and try to upset you. Writer's Digest calls them trolls. Some people call them "cyber-bullies." Whatever, you call them, try to stay objective and not invest any emotion in them. When I write, I like to write through issues and things going on in my mind like depression or loneliness. In my book, Over the Golden Horizon, I write through so much pain and hurt. But, when I read all that today, guess what! All of that negativity and hurt is healed. It really works. In the creative writing course I'm taking, the class responds to our writing with encouragement and inspiration. That's what it's all about! So don't suffer. Create! And don't worry about all those negative people bother you.