I avoid negative people

Some of the people who drain you are people you cannot avoid, and some of them are people you love.

It helps to separate two things that look identical from across a room. There are people having a hard year, grief or illness or work going badly, who are heavy to be around and worth being around anyway. And there are people for whom complaint is the entire architecture, who were like this before anything happened and will be after.

The first group needs you to stay. The second will take whatever you bring and hand back the same weather.

No ruling on anyone is required. Just notice who you feel steadier after seeing, and who leaves you tired in a way that lasts until Wednesday.