stay away from negative people

so, in the past months. I have some experiences that some people just wanna talk bad about me. They wanna spread bad rumors about me, that I am like this.. and that... and this.. I just let them talked bad about me. My life without them is very smooth sailing... i didn't think anything, i am not stressed and no one told me about bad stuff in people. Suddenly recently we are OK and then back to normal, they talk other peoples lives on me etc. And now i came to realized... that.... when they are not in my life, my life is OK... nothing to worry and actually so many good things happened in my life.. now that they are back.. it started again.. this is not really healthy for me. I may start to slowly drift from them I think... to have a normal life again.... and not always in chaos.....
Just a thought...
And a reminder to myself.. to STAY AWAY FROM NEGATIVE PEOPLE. because nothing good will happened