So many people are easily offended. Whether it is from something someone says or what a stranger actually does. People get offended at the drop of a hat. It used to be a point that people actually didn’t want to offend others, yet because of how easy it is today many people take the point that they offended another person as a point of bragging rights. Now this isn’t one side or the other side because they both are working to offend the other. So how do you not get offended?
Now there are some points in this week’s video that I don’t agree with for instance the narrator states that words can’t hurt us unless we let them, and I say words don’t have any ability to hurt us in any way. We choose to have thoughts about those words that hurt our feelings. I could choose to be offended. by that or I could choose a different route. Yet our narrator has many great points that if I didn’t stop and listen to what he was saying would be missed.
We see that what we have in our control is whether we become offended or not. We have that choice and have always had that choice. Remember that we only have control over 2 things our thoughts and actions. The resisting the truths of nature will cause us so much suffering. That is because it is futile to expect others to bow to our whim. That manual never gets read.
Now this doesn’t mean we don’t have boundaries that we set. Those boundaries are needed and those are actions you can make. Yet expecting everyone else to tiptoe around you is irrational. other points you want to know about is
- accept the truth reject nonsense
- contemplate your ego
You don’t have to be offended and if you are don’t expect everyone else to be offended too. They simply don’t care.
