To introduce people to each other, we are required to know the people we are introducing. The more we know about the people, the easier it is to introduce them. Do not wait until it is an emergency to become acquainted with the people in your community. However, a chance remark, a critical comment, an evil look, or someone bumping into us for no reason are all sufficient to blow the average person’s happiness in an instant. The threat of a job loss, a feeling of distrust in a relationship, a foreboding remark by a reporter, or a shifty Uber driver (stick with a Taxi), are all satisfactory to ruin the day for many of us.  As a result of negative feelings, thoughts, and attitudes, together with the constant judgment and criticism of other people, we often feel separated from others. #RyanPhillippe 1 of 5

Because we feel cut off from others, this feeling of inner aloneness and separation, relationships take on the form of attachments, with all the fear, anger, and jealousy that accompany any threat to those attachments. The inner negativity results in such commonly held misconceptions that we are born alone and die alone. However, nothing is farther from the truth.  Yet, because these fears are held in mind, fearful events and experiences are literally brought into our life experience. Fear results in chronic anger and makes us prone to attack and to inner emotional chaos. Some people are envious of anyone else who appears happier, more successful, or with a better relationship, better body, or better connections, and this is why they are constantly attacking you. #RyanPhillippe 2 of 5

Some people who seem to really being doing well have very hard lives and are struggling and others seem to want to add to their suffering and then pretend they do not know what is going on or threaten a person if they complain. So the best way to deal with these situations is to focus on something you hope will happen someday within your life journey. If you plan to work on opening up a little bit more emotionally, start with one small part of yourself that you feel is ready to be shared, rather than going for a full range of emotional vulnerability right away. It is important to take your time when you are aiming at big changes. #RyanPhillippe 3 of 5

Begin with target behaviors and people who you feel are relatively safe. If you are defensive and tend to distance yourself, you are making a commitment to hang in there with a new relationship, even if things are feeling a little too intense and intimate, do not lock yourself into something too risky. Do not go from a standstill to moving in together, nor to getting engaged, or going off together on a long trip to a romantic island because there is nothing in the World more pitiful than an irresolute man, oscillating between two feelings, who would willingly unite the two, and who does not perceive that nothing can unite them. #RyanPhillippe 4 of 5

First of all, become more responsible for yourself. Decide what activities and ways of behaving have meaning for you and what do not. One way to deal with frustration is to step in and directly remove the source of irritation. This is simple to say, but not always simple to accomplish. What if dad gets that junior manger out in the alley and “beats the hell” out of him? It might make the manager stop saying nasty things about Randolph. It also might get the father an assault-and-battery indictment or make the guy want to destroy father’s career completely. It also might also fill Randolph with such shame that he could not enjoy the job is he did get it. Any person who finds himself under stress, caught in conflict, will try to defend himself against the situation—somehow get “out from under” it. #RyanPhillippe 5 of 5