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The Toxic People
The Selfish, the Greedy, the Self-Absorbed, etc.
Toxic individuals need to be avoided and/or divorced from at all costs.
Here’s some very unattractive traits to look for, and to stay away from, even if the individual appears to be attractive on the outside (and even though, of course, we should never judge a book by its cover anyway):
- Not being happy for other people
- Not helping other people succeed
- Overt sarcasm
- Mean-spirited behavior
- Jealousy
- Stinginess
- Being hygienically-challenged
- Talking too much about oneself
- Never picking up the tab, due to false self-entitlement.
That latter unattractive trait is a tough one, especially during these challenging financial times. But overall, buying lunches and dinners and drinks and picking up the tab for other people is a very generous act — and should be commended, appreciated and executed.
However, if it’s done all the time, with a need to control, and to the point of making other people feeling inferior, well — that ain’t right. And the person to be kind is defeated
