So.. I've been thinking about it.. And.. I'm going to challenge myself to react and attack less those who are being disrespectful to me and others.
This is weird! Cause.. I strongly believe in defending yourself and others and I feel like it helps most of the time to not be weak spined and show others that you won't be fucked with.
However.. I also often feel bad when I utterly destroy someone for being stupid and arrogant.. Like.. Did I really need to go that far?
But.. I feel like, if someone attacks me.. I have to attack them back hard enough that they will think twice next time.
Though.. I had a phase in the past where I was much more controlled.. And it didn't bother me what people said cause I knew they were wrong or full of shit or confused or whatever.
And.. There's a lot of power in that mindset! When someone insults you expecting you to get pissed off, and you don't.
Many don't even know how to respond. Cause they operate in a way in which they basically thrive off of confrontation and arguing.
Especially with social media, like if someone says you're an idiot or whatever.. You have an extra desire to sort of attack back cause.. You know a bunch of people might see that..
Seems to me like most people don't want to be seen as someone who just takes abuse and doesn't fight back, it makes them look like a lil bitch so to speak.
When someone attacks me, I feel like I have to destroy them, and I'm really good at it..
YET.. What if.. I just tried to be more patient and understanding?
Sometimes I watch other debates that just devolve into shit slinging and I think to myself.. They might have actually made some real progress if they genuinely were trying to learn and not just be seen as "right".
Maybe I'd make more friends and even help change peoples minds more..
Cause let's face it.. USUALLY when people are fighting and insulting each other, they are much less likely to be receptive to your message.
Also.. i feel like I've been pretty good over the years, I never insult or attack people without REALLY good reason.
Either because me or someone I care about was attacked first, or because they are just promoting pure evil or horribly immoral things.
Though.. I'm thinking a lot lately that.. I don't wanna give them that power over me.. I don't want someone to easily be able to bring out the beast in me..
People should REALLY have to work hard to bring the beast out, and then they should be fucking terrified when it ever actually does happen.
So in summary.. I'm going to challenge myself and make a really good effort to not insult people as much as possible.
To be really straight forward.. There's WAY TOO MUCH hate out there.. And on some level, I'm feeding into it when I snap at everyone so quickly and easily.
I don't want to feed into that as much anymore.. I wanna try to be much more leveled and calm and understanding and eloquent in my responses.