Step Away From Mental Garbage Trucks
Would you let an actual garbage truck dump trash on you?
I generally try to avoid being around negative people. I’ve (successfully) built up this habit over years of practice, spotting patterns and knowing how to filter out the complainers, naggers, and negative Nancys of the world. Also, since you attract what you are, I’ve made a conscious effort to always see the bright side. As a result, it is now painfully penetrant when I do find myself in an encounter with someone who likes to complain loads.
You know them. Mental garbage trucks. The people who drop their garbage all over you with their nagging, moaning, and complaining. And you know what’s the worst part?
Most people (maybe including you) don’t get out of the way.
You would say that you can hear them coming. Just like a garbage truck in reverse. You smell their stagnant trash smell from miles away. You hear them creeping up behind you. They even make it easy for you to hear them coming. Peep. Peep. Peep. Peep. Shhhhhhhh.
Let’s say you’re indeed one of the people that don’t move, and the truck unloads the trash all over you.
The result? You go home smelling like dead fish and rotten tomatoes. You can take showers all you want but that smell of negativity is stuck in your nose.
Why didn’t you move? Why didn’t you just avoid all that trash being dumped on you? Who knows. Politeness, maybe.
With a real garbage truck, you would have yelled ‘’STOP!!!’’ or something less friendly within milliseconds, or you would have run away from it. But mental garbage, coming out of people’s mouths? You just accept it and let it wash all over you.
Recognize this pattern. Next time, when someone comes peep peep peeping your way, about to dump their garbage on you, step away from the truck. When your neighbor Sharon comes to dump her negativity and complaints on you, just let it drop right next to you.
You’ll go home feeling much better.
