That's something I would definitely leave the other person alone about. If you can't handle their outlook, leave them be. Telling them they're wrong won't help anything. If they could trust talk, they would not be where they are now.
Really the only thing you can do to change the opinion that people are bad is not to be bad.
And I think if you get caught up in forcing the person to change his/her mind via talk rather than the slow way, via experience and letting the person come to see this on his own, you will get dropped before you will have a chance to have an effect.
So polish your halo and practice your patience and be good, really good, good enough so they can see it.
Or walk off.
Absolutely. I'm a really cynical person inspite of being an idealist, infact my cynicism stems from realising idealism is a false image of everything around me.
I am slow to trust anyone, slow to let anyone in and the only people who ever get in are the ones who just let me see rather than try to force me or get judgemental upon me just because I have obviously found it harder to cope with the bad things that have happened to me in my life.
Sometimes people have been broken so much that they no longer find it easy to believe in people. Of course some types are better equipped to bounce back quicker, but that's them.
However my cynicism is hidden in sarcastic humour that my friends highly enjoy, and I very rarely let anyone see just how distant I really am from them.
I know cynical people too, and of course I understand that it can be draining upon an empathic person, or annoying to the non empathic, I feel it too whenever I am on a high and I am around them. I just grin and bear it because that's what friendship means to me.
However 2 cynics trying to cheer each other up can be frustratingly hilarious at times.
I idealise my friends though, because they got past my cynical barrier with time and patience.
I feel like highly cynical people do it for attention. They kind of strike me as being full of themselves so they have to beat down on a lot of things and sometimes promote their cynisism in times of a need for attention.
I don't think so, I think highly cynical people are so hurt they can't manage to believe in anything or anyone anymore. I don't think they want attention from it, since as a highly cynical person I very rarely tell anyone what I feel when I'm in a darker period. Attention is the last thing I want, to bring someone else low with my dark mood? hell no.
I think judging people who have lost their mojo is a waste of time, just try to understand what must have driven that person to become so jaded.