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Originally Posted by Morningriser
I wasn't really feeling the best yesterday as is And I guess I was just aggravated. maybe what the lady was doing was it racially driven, maybe it was just a coincidence
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I got ya. I hope you get what I'm saying with my post and the "Maybe So" video. I'm not saying anything about the lady.
One, I'm just saying it's good if you don't let a situation like that change you, and your outlook, for the worse. She, or the situation, pissed you off, and kept you thinking about it for an extended period of time, which technically, is changing you, and for worse. I'm not saying we shouldn't sometimes have righteous indignation -- getting angry about an obvious, usually confirmed intentional, and fairly consequential, injustice... but I think those have a high standard and you carefully pick your battles. Cause, among other things, those stress hormones reek destruction on your body.
Two, like the Maybe So video reminds us, it's usually not beneficial for us label various situations as either dreadfully unfortunate or ecstatically fortunate, because these are small snap shots of a much bigger and constantly changing reality.
In that situation, it may have been more beneficial to you to take that five minutes as an opportunity to take a deep breath and "meditate", take in the wonder of your surroundings, add a positive thought and feeling to the moment. Cause at that exact moment, who the hell knows if that "apparent delay" would be wholly beneficial or detrimental in the extended run? And it goes back to the wisdom of not letting it "piss you off".