Well often people are angry and negetive all the time because they have low self esteem. They often get frustrated by it and so whenever they do interact it turns out poorly only adding to their anger. It can be frustrating for someone who actually wants to interact and learn from others as they are often pushed aside and stepped on. So don't give up or think that you have to outsmart the other person who is being mean to you.

You have to take into consideration that many people grow up never really learning the skills of how to be assertive and develope good skills in interacting with others.
I think that it is more common now as we have so much technology where even though it appears that we do converse more, we actually can be more damaged by our lack of really learning how to do it. With all these cell phones that go with us everywhere we are constantly on call to all the people we interact with, and that includes business customers etc.

Yes we are now in a world wind of conversation and often any lack is only punished in more ways than one can imagine. I personally don't over indulge myself in twitter and facebook and whatever else is out there to drag myself into. And I never really had the time before to devote myself to constant conversation. Actually joining PC has been my only real effort to take time out to this type of atmosphere. It has been useful to me as I am addressing a lot at the moment and working my way through it and I have learned a lot by coming to PC. But my goal is to get back to or move onto a better way of getting busy again at life.

Before I was always in such a foward productive motion. Then I was hit with a bad experience and given a diagnosis of PTSD. And all the bad experiences I live through in my past are all clumped together for some reason. And so I have learned that what I thought I had fought through and overcome was only building up in some unconscious way. And I am working very hard on addressing it. I have to say it is very challenging, but I am determined.

But not to get off topic here. I just wanted to encourage you silverbells to keep learning how to be assertive in interacting with others. But you will come across others that will not be able to do anything other than express anger. So it is a waste of time for you to try to make it be a battle you think you need to engage in.

Just keep focusing on trying to make postive efforts to learn how to express youself and build self esteem. Dont try to beat them and especially don't join them.

Open Eyes