by Karl Denninger, Market Ticker:
Want to have a better life?
Stop being around people who have no interest in better anything, including most importantly their interaction with you.
There’s always an available excuse to keep someone who does that in your orbit. I don’t care if the issue is that they’re wildly obese and thus unhealthy, they are convinced the world is ending tomorrow and thus are drinking or drugging themselves half-to-death (and will eventually make it entirely to death if they keep it up) or are simply toxic beyond reason, whether it is being scared of this thing floating in the air or that and demand that you take steps to accommodate them or they scream that everyone but them is a “whatever-is-shiny-today”-ist.
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Folks, social interaction is a two-edged sword. Yes, its positive to get out and be around other people, interacting with them socially in a positive way.  But it is also equally negative or worse for you to do so with people who lie to themselves or project damaging or worse “features” upon others.
I constantly hear people say “oh its a phase” or “but this person needs my help.”
Really? How much of that “help” becomes reciprocal in your direction when things are going poorly for you?
Further, there is a huge difference between being supportive for someone who through no fault of their own has a horrible thing happen and those who put themselves in the position they’re in through their own choices. The former is not anyone’s “fault”; a tornado that rips through your house isn’t something you can reasonably mitigate against. That’s not what I’m talking about here, and taking someone (including possibly their family) in on a limited basis if that sort of thing happens, provided they do not abuse your offer to evade taking responsibility for finding a new place to live or repairing their damaged residence is reasonable.
In short if you want your life to be better and more-balanced get rid of the people in your orbit who make it less-so.
So-called “social media” exists because said interaction can easily become an addiction. Any addiction is by definition open to exploitation by others, and this sort of thing is no exception.
Yes, this extends to faith organizations and to some extent work as well.
While it is certainly true that just getting up from the chair at work, if you have no other job lined up right now, can result in bad outcomes the refusal to seek other options as well as continuing to bring that toxic environment out of the work place and into your personal life is a choice and to the extent you offload it on others you are now asking them to take your consequence just as a “friend” does so when they do that to you.
When it comes to places of purely-voluntary interaction such as a club, church or otherwise if you remain in your seat when this so much as starts then you’ve taken it upon yourself.
Delete those elements of your life from your daily experience and, if challenged by the institutions or people who you no longer interact with (all of whom by definition aren’t very good at figuring out what they’re doing and why its toxic, are they?) tell them why.
