Staying out of negativity !

Yesterday was another Adult religious Education session .There have been a few phenomenal sessions in the past few years and yesterday's was one. The subject was "Staying positive even in today's world" Though the subject was great and some good advise was given, none of the advise was anything new to me.As a matter of fact most of it was basic psychology 101 stuff, that I have used in my life for years. As many of you know, I am a worrier. I get it honestly as My wonderful father is the king of all worriers. Even though I have been married and out of his house for almost twenty years now, he still calls if he hears of an accident anywhere in the area surrounding where I live. Usually he can catch me either at home or on my cell phone and then he proceeds to tell me about an accident somewhere that he thought might have been me. Yes he seems to have great faith in my driving :-( Anyway there are those days that I have left my cell phone at home or let the battery run down and he can't reach me. This is when he starts calling Mike, the kids, my brothers , the swat team, and anyone else who he thinks might know where I am. Then everyone starts calling and I come home to a full voice mailbox and everyone reprimanding me for not making myself available when people need me . What???? I am the one to blame ???? OK sure I get it ! Anyway, I get my anxiety honestly. Add to this that Mike has been in several accidents ( never his fault ) on his way home from work and then there is the teenage daughter who drives forty five minutes to school in the snow . Oh and don't forget the teenager who is learning to drive, and Oh anyway you get the point !
So anyway , to remain sane,I have implemented many de stressing ideas in my life. Unfortunately ,though some of these implementations are not easily implemented. For instance the main one is to avoid negative situations. This isn't in itself too hard to do but along with this comes avoiding negative people. Now be honest , we all know those people who we will not even ask how they are doing. As sad as it may be we simply don't have the time or energy to hear about how they had a hang nail that became infected and the infection spread to their vital organs and now they are in so much pain that the doctor is talking about writing them a prescription for medical marijuana( no I don't know who this fictitious doctor is.... Sorry), but it will not alleviate all of the pain anyway and Oh the misery just flows from these people. These people can suck the joy out of a leper who just just found out he was cured ! Unfortunately avoiding these people is nearly impossible as they are so good at guilt trips that they could send that healed leper into depression for being healed before an other's hang nail disappeared.
So what are we to do ? Do we owe the happily depressed the right to dump on us ? Of course not. Sometimes we have to just be as loving as possible and do what we have to. Almost always this is met with resistance which must be handed over to God.
After all, People are like trash trucks. They collect all of the garbage in the world and pile it in until it is overflowing. At this point they must dump. Don't let them dump on you until you get full and must dump on yet another !