How do i avoid becoming a misanthrope?

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1. I think searching for the answer on social media is a GREAT start to lowering your hostility level!

2. You need to get out of your bubble and go and make some actual friends. You say how others treat each other is awful, but that’s just the way people you’ve met so far have treated people. That certaily hasn’t been *my* experience of people, nor has it been the entire experience of everyone else. I mean, if it was true, we’d all be solitary creatures and none of us would have social lives.

   Get back on the horse and try again. Get some hobbies, go outside, spend time with actual nice people who are doing nice things. How do you typically meet people? How have you made friends in the past?

3. I’ve found a baseline assumption that every stranger is an angry, greedy, dirtbag that society forces me to be decent to can be helpful.

   When they prove me wrong, the warmth and gratitude from me is genuine.

   That said, *people*(customers) are why I left retail. They made me feel like someone I should hate.

4. Dig into biology, it helps seeing things from a different perspective, without morals.

5. Embrace it. Eventually you’ll hate it, too.

6. Stay off Redditt..

7. I assume you haven’t been that unfortunate that you never met a genuinely good person. For example, I have one friend, she’s the best person I’ve met and will meet. She’s selfless and although people have taken advantage of her nice nature she still keeps the faith.

8. By accepting people as they are, depending only on yourself, and expecting nothing of others. You’re disappointed in people and becoming misanthropic because you expect people to be better than they are.