If you don't have God as your beacon. You will most surely flounder in the darkness.
Some people pray or hope for the best. Others try to stay positive. To me it's an ask. Your looking for divine guidance. Does your predicament get resolved pronto, probably not. But you do hope so. Stay focused on that problem and try to solve it yourself, all along looking for markers or signs from spirit in helping you to get to your desired goal. You have to have sticktuvidiness.
God sits on the sidelines watching you on the field of life. It's usually when you make the ask that God sends divine spirit to your aid. It's when we get in trouble that we resort to the ask. When things are good were content. When things are bad. Well thats another story. God can send help in a split second or the aid will come more slowly for a definite reason. If you want grace from God, you have to give grace to his people. And we are all his people. If we don't know how to handle a particular person, we can ask God to help us in dealing with that individual.
Negative people are like b a d apples, just one can spoil the whole bunch. One negative person can destroy a group consciousness. One person talking bad about someone else infects the others and then others start thinking negative about that person as well. Adding their negative comments to the discussion as well. When you find yourself in this situation you can say to them, everyone has their own particular circumstances from which they base their actions, then take your leave from the group.
Life is Tuff. Some things seem unfair, but you have to push on. Learn the lesson so you don't have to repeat it again. Set yourself goals and then set out to complete them. I didn't do this and to this day I suffer the consequences. Definitely not a good feeling.
Do the ask. Spirit is at your service.