Just because I didn't react doesn't mean I didn't make a choice. Just because I didn't explode at you doesn't meant that there weren't any consequences to your actions.
When I was little, I had absolutely no control over my emotions. Every single time something would go wrong I would explode and turn into a living tornado. I would react to everything that was going on in life and had no ability to slow myself down.
However, as I grew up, I started to become much more of an observer than a reactor. I quieted down and started looking at everyone and everything around me with deep interest.
And because I did all of this, I learned some very important lessons about life.
There doesn't need to be some big reaction for everything.
Not everything needs to have a huge amount of effort attached to it.
Not everything has to have an equally matched counter reaction to what happened.
I found out that there's a lot to be said for keeping calm, cool, and collected under significant amounts of pressure. Instead of fighting back, sometimes it's far better to be more fluid than anything else.
And even though this was an amazing insight to have, there was something else that struck me.
It was the power of action beneath the surface. What I mean by that is just because you didn't make a grand display of something doesn't mean that you didn't make decisions in that moment that weren't available to the naked eye.
You can act...quietly.
You can be gentle with your touch.
Calmly.
If you know what is good for you, you will understand that losing control of everything and exploding is only going to hurt you more in the long run.
It's a great thing to be looking out for yourself and for others as well.
Because of course you could raise all hell, but is that really going to be the best thing for you? Probably not.
Time to try on a different way.
When I was little, I had absolutely no control over my emotions. Every single time something would go wrong I would explode and turn into a living tornado. I would react to everything that was going on in life and had no ability to slow myself down.
However, as I grew up, I started to become much more of an observer than a reactor. I quieted down and started looking at everyone and everything around me with deep interest.
And because I did all of this, I learned some very important lessons about life.
There doesn't need to be some big reaction for everything.
Not everything needs to have a huge amount of effort attached to it.
Not everything has to have an equally matched counter reaction to what happened.
I found out that there's a lot to be said for keeping calm, cool, and collected under significant amounts of pressure. Instead of fighting back, sometimes it's far better to be more fluid than anything else.
And even though this was an amazing insight to have, there was something else that struck me.
It was the power of action beneath the surface. What I mean by that is just because you didn't make a grand display of something doesn't mean that you didn't make decisions in that moment that weren't available to the naked eye.
You can act...quietly.
You can be gentle with your touch.
Calmly.
If you know what is good for you, you will understand that losing control of everything and exploding is only going to hurt you more in the long run.
It's a great thing to be looking out for yourself and for others as well.
Because of course you could raise all hell, but is that really going to be the best thing for you? Probably not.
Time to try on a different way.
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