Have you ever remember the last time you deal with a difficult person? Or when was the last time you've heard something from someone saying negative things to you who has the intention of hurting you? What was the outcome? What did you do in that situation? What are the things you can do to avoid similar situations and the same people?

The truth is, the world is full of negative people. No matter where you go and no matter what you do, there will always be a person who will try to hurt you or perhaps oppose to you and piss you off until you explode.

Conflicts are considered normal since there are billions of people in the world who have differences. It is a factor that triggers our emotions and what drives us to react, attack and defend. So, in these difficult moment, we sometimes lose track of our higher selves and become a wild creature that has an urge to protect ourselves. But certainly most of us would want to maintain the decency as an educated people who does not easily give in to things that we think can still be resolve through calmness and communication not with negative argument.

So, how do you deal with difficult people? You don't need to slap or punch them just because you want to hurt their feelings. Here are a few tips why you should control your responses.

The more you hurt others, the more you're hurting yourself too. Responding to any negtivity or argument can hurt the others, however, you are neglecting its side effect. Whenever you are hurting someone, your inner peace is destroyed and creating a pain within yourself.

It's not You. It's them. According to people in Urbane scrubs, when someone say any kind of negativitity, that means, it is just their way of expressing their inner state externally and you just happened to be the person catching those negativities. In short: there are people who are just unhappy and bored with their own lives that they want to take others down with them.

War of egos. Once a person respond to a negative statement thrown at him, it is an honest and
natural response. But surely you've noticed that when you respond to that person with painful words, it feels good right, especially when that person cannot respond with what you've said. While it feels good in your head, but your soul doesn't. When you fight back, it will just form a guilt and conscience will whisper to you. What to do to resolve? Nothing. It doesn't matter who is Right, for now. As long as you knew it wasn't true and not absorbing the negativity, you'll be fine.

Negativity results to negativity. Responding to negative attacks will only make additional anger and negativity. In short, it will not help and it will not stop the other person. So since you're the one who can understand, take the lead - just don't respond.

Waste of Time and Energy. Whenever we're giving out attention, were also letting energy flow and of course, consume time. Thus, giving time and energy to negativity is truly a waste.

Spreading of Negativity to your Body. When we are in a negative state, we're also spreading negativity to all the other areas making our mind and body burdened with stress and anger.

Allow the right to speech freedom. Everyone is entitled to freedom of speech, hence, just let them talk what they want. Remember, we have differences, positive for that person is negative for you, we have our own perspective. You can choose whether to argue or to just stop and be at peace.