Assuming Good Intentions
With all the stuff going on around the world over the last year, maintaining some degree of mental stability can be quite a challenge. Speaking only for myself, while my family and I have been fine through all this, the changes to my situation, while mostly benign, have still had their challenges. Again, speaking only for myself, I've found those challenges do lead to negativity on my part. Further, that negativity can bleed into my communication with others, hurting that communication. I have seen others suffering from this as well. Whatever stresses they're going through clearly leads to negativity in their communications. Now, when we're looking at this situation, I'm negative, someone else is negative, we're going to communicate really poorly. So, how to address this? Well, there are a…