Game recognize game…

Toxic people are everywhere. As long as negative feelings and behaviors such as jealousy, insecurity, fear, and inauthenticity exist, so will toxic people.

They’re called toxic for a reason. It’s because they are harmful by proximity. And just like anything that is harmful through contact, our minds and bodies possess an instinct that tells us to to keep away.

Unfortunately, in our necessary attempts to function as a greater machine within society, sometimes we find ourselves in these situations where, even if it’s for nine hours a day, we have to sit alongside the fearful, the insecure, the jealous…

The toxic.

I know I brush shoulders with some of them on an almost daily basis. They’re fairly easy to spot: The disapproving head-shakes, the not so subtle announcements to colleagues that are heavy and dripping with insecure compensation, the unprovoked shit-talking going on behind your back that they don’t think you’re aware of.

To go through life like this. It’s got to be exhausting. Many of the toxic qualities of these miserable folks end up manifesting themselves physically: bulging veins, faces red with the accumulated mental plaque of years of suppressed rage, labored breathing between words, chronic irritable bowel syndrome. The list goes on.

The good news is that the law of attraction is a very real thing… or a bad thing, depending on how you choose to carry yourself through life. Toxic people attract toxic people. Think of all the rat-mouthed, whispering “cliques” that share and partake in each other’s misery, projecting faults and hurling hushed assumptions towards those they secretly envy in those back corners of every office building.

Fortunately, the law of attraction applies to the self-confident, the positive, the genuine, and the truthful as well. Those who carry themselves with a sense of integrity and personal honesty attract others who hold the same values. Those who don’t chain themselves to their ego and can critically assess themselves draw others in who operate the same way, and they help each other grow. It’s a win-win.

If you put yourself on a good trajectory, avoiding the pitfalls of self-delusion and inauthenticity, you will naturally form friendships and relationships with other genuine souls. If you’re just a plain old decent human being, I’m telling you, you are going to have other decent human beings appear in your close circle. It’s really like magic, and as a bonus, you’ll repel the toxic ones.

So if you’re in the same lot as most human beings, and find yourself in situations where you have to share a common space with toxic people, I plead with you to just ignore them all and keep doing your own thing. Keep being true to yourself. Stride towards your full potential. Execute your plan, day after day. If someone really wants to insert themselves into your life, and be a part of your story, they will.

As long as you are carrying yourself with integrity, living with honesty, and a good set of values, you will have good people knocking down your door to be a part of what you have going on. If they don’t want to, believe that it has nothing to do with what you’re doing and everything to do with who they are and what they are choosing (or not choosing) to surround themselves with.

Ignoring the haters is the best thing you can do. You have too many valuable things going on in your life. You have too many things to learn, too many truths to uncover, too much progress to make. Just keep building and honoring the temple, and good people will make the pilgrimage.