<p>I feel like I’m always surrounded by negative people. People who are so fortunate and so blessed, but they feel the need to complain all the time anyway. One of my friends who I met last year is THE MOST negative person I’ve ever met. And she has to comment on everything. It drives me insane because I don’t want to say anything about it, but at the same time I can’t distance myself from her because we have classes together and she’s friends with my very close friends as well. So I just have some questions:</p>
<p>1) Are the majority of people you meet in life negative? I feel like I only have 2 or 3 friends at school who truly make me happy. A lot just irritate me with their constant complaints, and some suck the life out of me! It sucks because I’m a happy person and I try to make other people smile… but it seems like some just don’t want to. 
They complain about the SMALLEST things like, “Oh, I was at driving school yesterday and now my whole body hurts because I’m not used to sitting like I’m holding a steering wheel.” “My pencil sharpener doesn’t even work, it’s so stupid. How am I supposed to write now?” “This test is so long and I have to show all of my work. That’s so unfair!” “It’s cold outside, so I can’t come to your house to work on the project. Now we’ll just have to take a zero.” “I can’t stay until 8:00 to help you on OUR project because I have to go home and eat at 7:00.” (Not even kidding, I’ve heard all of those from people.) What about when I grow up? Are lots of people like this, or (hopefully) is this just a teenage thing, feeling like the world hates you?</p>
<p>2) How do you distance yourself from negative people if you have to be around them sometimes? Even if that’s not it, how do you make excuses to get out of spending so much time with them? I know it sounds really bad and rude of me, but I have to work on projects with some negative people and their complaining/lack of effort makes me really upset. After the projects are done I really don’t want to be influenced by them anymore. It’s not good for me, or the people around me who might be affected by me. (For example, even my physics teacher noticed I was really sad one day. She thought something horrible had happened because I’m always happy and smiling – even in physics, lol – but I just can’t deal with the negativity.)</p>
<p>3) If you can’t get away from negative people, how do you stop their remarks from affecting you? How do you prevent the whole negative influence?</p>
<p>I can’t take it anymore. They’re like dementors.</p>