Negative People are Everywhere

Any society or large group will always have people with negative dispositions – which may be the because of their improper upbringing, abnormal experiences, etc. Some of these people take to crime. Some others may have hidden criminal r; some may be sadists – gaining pleasure from troubling, irritating or causing pain to others.

For example, to some people, cheating somebody of Rs. 5 would give more pleasure than earning Rs. 500.

Such people can’t be wished away. One has to learn how to identify them, deal with them, or avoid them.

My apprehension is that in contemporary society, which places a premium on individualism and materialism, the number of such negative people will rise exponentially.

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Wow... very similar thoughts from Nimmy's blog:

Coping with the World

The really ominous thing about today's world is that if one is overly sensitive, then one is likely to give in and dissolve into smithereens, one or more atoms at a time, when constantly faced with what the majority of society suffers from in one form or the other - incompetence, apathy, selfishness, superficiality, hypocritical-ness, meaninglessness, greed, cruelty, sadism, discrimination and a whole lot of other depressing things that I better stop making a list of.

Arguably, you don't really need the media to blow it up and negatively impact your mind. Families suffer from it, organizations you work for suffer from it, banks you rely on to safeguard your earnings suffer from it, service providers you rely on to execute your tasks suffer from it and even the temple you go to for peace of mind is subjected to these ills.

To feed into inspiring literature and thoughts and then swing back to reality might actually backfire as you struggle to cope with what you increasingly aspire for and the unyielding, chaotic and yawning gap you see when you come back to reality. If you're lucky enough to cross paths with many of those who are successfully endeavoring to make a difference, change and adapt themselves without impacting their values and attitude, little rays of hope begin to fall on you gently.