We all get negative people. People who would rather see us fail than succeed. But when people say degrading things or insult me, these days I've diacovered that as long as I tell myself "It's all just a part of my life's story" it hurts a lot less. If I think of my life as a story, and I'm just a character in it, then sometimes I can laugh at my own misfortunes. Like "haha, if this was a book or a TV show, then this moment would be funny, even if it's at my (just one single character) expense. I'm just a character in a book or a TV show, and so I can laugh at the situations I'm in, and find joy in my own pain, because I'm just a character.

And then instead of wondering why something needed to happen when it was unpleasant, I just think "wow, that was a moment out of a TV show. This is the part where the character gets laughed at, but there are also moments where we sympathize with her."