Your environment plays a crucial role in your life. There are such ‘friends’ who seem always to be around, but instead of supporting and inspiring you, they only drag you down.
They lack drive or aspirations, in life. They simply go with the flow living aimlessly without any goals often complaining and dwelling on their issues.
These kinds of friends or companions can affect your mood and overall emotional state. Being a source of encouragement and support these “friends” end up hindering your growth.
When you confide in these “friends” about your aspirations (especially if you’re striving for changes like aiming for a job or considering moving to a new place) they might dismiss your ideas as unrealistic and discourage you from pursuing them – essentially setting you up for failure in their way.
It’s advisable not to share your dreams and plans with individuals; reserve that trust, for those genuinely invested in seeing you succeed – this is one way to prevent their influence from taking hold.
Constant negativity can become toxic and a heavy burden. Instead of supporting and helping you solve problems, such “friends” might just cement you in depression.
Healthy relationships should be mutual, where everyone puts in their share of effort and attention. If friendship becomes a one-sided game, you’re wasting a lot of energy. And you could be using it for something useful.
Don’t hope to reform people around whom you are deteriorating and whose influence is leading your life downhill.
The simplest option is to completely and irrevocably stop communicating with such people – just stop answering their calls and messages, and fully ignore them.
If you still try to explain to them your refusal to continue the communication, you will most likely be unable to properly explain the true nature of the problem and lying will not bring you any good. No matter how nice and harmless your words may sound, the other person will still feel hurt that you are neglecting communication with them, and they will be offended. This is unavoidable, so be prepared for it.
Therefore, there can’t be any speeches in this case. Either a heartfelt conversation, which will only be a waste of time and nerves, or… a silent goodbye.
Your time is slipping away; life is too short to waste it on such relationships, even if it’s with very close people. Everyone makes their own choice: some choose the “swamp,” while others get out of it.
This content reflects the author’s personal opinion.
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