What do you do with an unpleasant person?
You could hide,
read a book,
take charge, wear distracting socks,
keep your distance,
take a pause,
drive away, drink tea,
appreciate yourself, honor your soul, give yourself a compliment,
be open to other people’s compliments, be the hero of your own story,
and/or write a song.
Today, I’ll be spending the day with many pleasant people for the first day of a three-day group psychotherapy conference in my pleasant birthplace of Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
I look forward to reading your pleasant comments.
Many thanks to all the pleasant cats and people who helped me create today’s post and — of course! — to YOU.
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A very pleasant, wise, and clear strategy, Derrick.
enjoy! i’m probably best at the distracting socks approach )
You’re best at a lot of things, Beth.
OMG Ann you rock!!! Thanks for the big smile this morning
Thank YOU for my huge smile this morning, Lisa.
Fun song. Reminds me of Phoebe Kreutz, a folk singer from NYC.
Thank you, Ray, for always being pleasant.
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I would still date them all!
Harley says hello!
THAT is my favoritest new song!!!!!
THAT is my favoritest comment! Many thanks, Colleen.
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I try to avoid the type of people you mention, Ann. If not, just cope.
Thanks for helping me cope, Mark.
Try to embrace what I can learn from that unpleasant person.
I embrace this wonderfully wise and pleasant comment.
Smiling …. I love your compliment question. Just shared with Don and he said “I’m a damn good looking specimen of a man” we are both still laughing 😆
I’m so glad, Val! Thank you for this damn good and exceedingly pleasant comment.
For some reason this put the song, “How Do You Solve A Problem Like Maria?” in my head. Whenever anyone tells me they have a song stuck in their head I tell them I have a way to fix that and when they ask what it is I sing “OH MICKEY YOU’RE SO FINE YOU’RE SO FINE YOU BLOW MY MIND HEY MICKEY!”
I worry sometimes that my sense of humor makes me an unpleasant person, but my friends know that even if I am unpleasant it will pass. They know that none of us is one thing all the time and that somewhere in my wicked past or childhood I must have done something good.
Your sense of humor makes me laugh, Chris, which is a very pleasant experience.
wonder what happened to them in their childhood….and what it would take to connect with them. Then I walk away. I loved your song! Actually, it’s very pleasant in a sweetly unpleasant way. 🙂
I’ve been wondering those things and walking away for years, Elouise. Finally, I redirected my energy by writing that song. So unpleasant people can inspire creativity! I’m grateful for that and also for another one of your wonderful comments. <3
You have such a great range when writing about things.
You’re always so pleasant, Alex. Thank you!
I just read about Kurt Vonnegut ‘s terms of “Karass”—a group connected through a discovered spirituality (your tribe). And graffoons—a group with similarities, yet little connection (some families workmates, etc. . )
For me the solution to unpleasant people is to try to spend more time with the karasses than the graffoons.
Thank you for being such an awesome karass, Barb.