A guarantee to have a negative outcome

How you "react" to the situation you are in will create the situation that you will have to live with. If you "react" without thinking about what your actions will bring you will have to live with the consequences of your actions. Acting on impulse to a negative situation will only guarantee that the outcome will be negative because our first reaction to a negative situation is definitely very negative. If you stop before "reacting" to think about it you will see that your first reaction would have made it worse. If you can't think of any way to "react" that won't make things worse then just "walk away." Sometimes your only choice is to do nothing at all which is still a choice you will have to make.