Very good post with very good points being made. I grew up around many toxic people for most of my younger years. It had a profoundly negative effect on me. One day i met a woman who saw the real me and accepted me as i am. I quickly learned a very valuable lesson that i am grateful for and learned to love myself and i discovered who i really was. And it was an amazing gift. I truly like the person i discovered inside myself that person gave me the chance to reveal and explore. Always talk to people and point out the good in them. It goes further than most might think.

I think you have some very wise thoughts that you spoke of in this post.