When I feel people are rude towards me I always take it to heart. It will almost always bother me for days afterwards. On the one hand I feel down about it but it also makes me determined to continue treating people well to the best of my ability. The confrontation seems to inspire positive thinking. I was walking home after work this evening and I saw a car parked on the side of the road. I noticed that as I started to get nearer the car the couple inside started to look at me and talk to one another and knew they were going to do something. I actually considered cutting across the field just to avoid them. I thought they're going to beep the horn at me to try to make me jump and that's exactly what happened. They begin to laugh and give me a "We've just done something really funny" look. It may not seem much but these actions touch a nerve with me due to being bullied when I was younger. I take these jokes at my expense very offensively. Nowadays I chose to deal with these events by thinking that I have list in my head of things never to do to people and I cross them off as they happen to me (some people laughed at me and it felt horrible...don't act that way). It may not be a new lesson but it definitely reinforced some important beliefs on how to treat people.
"That tour it was no more fighting , be passive...Hank took blows, man. I remember me and Georgie picking him up during the set- people putting cigarettes out on his back, throwin' shit at him..he had sores all over himself, cos' he would not fight back. I thought he had a lot of strength to do that, man, a lot of strength. He probably learnt a lot too"-Mike Watt from a Biography of Henry Rollins.
Rise above!/shine bright.
xo
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