Lose The Losers

When I was writing “Being Happy Matters”, I compiled some key activities that I believe can expand happiness in our lives. One that stood out to me was this:
 
  Hang out with happy people: it's contagious; absorb their habits to become happier.
 
That’s a practice I’ve been taking on for some time now since discovering that negative people in your life can bring you down. And, frankly, life’s too short.
An example? Sure. There’s a former friend of mine who turned out to be not a friend at all. I’m a pretty accepting guy but I came to realize this character’s a self-serving, negative, liar and misanthrope. How sad that he decided to throw me under the bus to protect his own reputation, telling bald faced lies about me while complaining to a real friend of mine that I didn’t know how to live life. Well, he’s wrong. Dead wrong. But the point is, I don’t need his silly nonsense in my life. So I haven’t  talked to him in a year. And you know what: I don’t miss the schmuck at all. He can live his sad little life on his own, likely believing his own brand of claptrap, while those of us who are smart know what a loser he is. (My friend John, who he complained to, said, “This guy’s full of it! What’s sad is that he’s the only one who doesn’t know it.” And George, my real estate agent and also a friend, said this same clown has tried to pry details out of him about how much I sold my house for: “This guy’s a wing nut! You can tell from the sound of his voice! Why would I give him any information!?”) As they say about lowlifes, it is to laugh.
 
Anyway, at the end of the day, when you consider the value of hanging out with happy people, you may want to recall that it’s important to divorce yourself from unhappy people first. You’ll be better off for it.

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