Draining conversations !

Have you ever had someone in your sphere of influence who can basically rant about the same thing relentlessly for hours, days, weeks and even months? Such people, in my opinion, are having that conversation with a one-point agenda i.e. to get you to agree to their point of view. There are only two ways of ending this kind of an utterly draining, tiring and fuck-all conversation:

If by some some divine luck, you still want them around in your life - be a yes man (or woman), agree to all they say and peace will be yours to keep. Well, not really! because these people will now take this opportunity to talk down at you and say - I told you so. It may be accompanied by an occasional misplaced and untimely laughter and ridicule from their end. 

The other and more permanent way to end this kind of a conversation is to basically throw these people out of your life. This will ensure you don't get drained of your energy and can actually invest the time in having more intellectually stimulating conversations with interesting people. 

There might just be another way to put an end to such conversations and that is by being mature enough to bury the hatchet and move on for good. But, that takes two to tango. 

This seldom happens with folks who take the liberty of slinging mud on you and then absolving themselves of creating any bad blood by pointing a finger at you and saying well you did this to yourself, you brought it upon yourself. You know they are right, because, come to think of it, you did give them access to you, bring them close to you without really fully understanding who they are and what they are capable of. But, as they say, it's never too late to accept and acknowledge to yourself that you made a mistake and took a wrong decision of letting these people in. And that is when you set yourself free of their drama. 

Did you notice, how I was trying to make a point about peaceful co-existence by burying the hatchet and that took a U-turn and ended up in the inevitable outcome! in a nutshell, let these people go from your life, only then can you experience a peaceful and happy life !