Are you easily offended?
By DavidReedy
@DavidReedy (2378)
United States
May 17, 2007 8:16pm CST
I catch myself getting offended every now and then, but since I've had a few decent realizations, it's been less and less. Ultimately, psychology, eastern philosophy, and common sense begins to tell us, that if you are one who is easily offended by others' words, actions, and existence, you need to take a long, hard look in the mirror and wonder what about yourself you do not like, are afraid of, and are uncomfortable with. So, are you, like myself, one who wishes you didn't find yourself being offended by things that aren't necessarily hurtin anyone? Are you too sensitive?
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@lilyll (12)
• China
19 May 07
i used to be sensitive when i was in senior high middle school.i've never thought about my quick temper until i failed my college entrance examination which rezembles the SAT in US.i began to think about the cause and found my character played a part.so i tried to control myself to look things in a peaceful way.
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@DavidReedy (2378)
• United States
27 May 07
I Am so glad for you. Congratulations, you've done more growing than most people do in a lifetime.
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@liranlgo (5752)
• Israel
18 May 07
No i am not easily offended. I knew that once i used to be very sensetive and got offended from almost everything.
But then one day i realized that somthing is wrong here, with how i am reacting, and i had to trace my problem and why i had to reactto things that way, and i did solve it.
Thank god i solved it, it took too much energy from my life.
@DavidReedy (2378)
• United States
27 May 07
I wish I could denote more than one best response. Yes, indeed. It sucks our life away to take everything personally--in the Buddhist sense, to be attached to our opinions.
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@magica (3707)
• Bulgaria
18 May 07
I am from theese people who are very sensitive and accept everything too personaly. This is not good for me, i know also some of the reasons, but sometimes the reactions are impulsive. I accept emotionally the attack as attack, even when it`s not at all attack. Later when my emotions are calm, i analize the situation and understand it better.
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@DavidReedy (2378)
• United States
18 May 07
We're all guilty of that, I'm afraid. But do you realize how many fights we could avoid, if we'd only keep our mouth's shut for a few seconds more, and hold back on our comeback. The fact of the matter is, unless possibly one is speaking in pure mathematics, then one is not speaking definite truth. One is speaking perceived truth at that moment in time. When mad as all Hades, don't we all think, feel, and then say something we totally regret later, because we know it's not true, and it hurt the feelings of one we Love, but at the time it seemed like the truth, right? So, knowing that one is not speaking the truth, but only their perception of it, in a moment of emotion, we can also recognize simultaneously that a)they probably don't really mean it and b)the more heightened our reaction to it, the higher the degree that we fear it may be true.
@SheliaLee (2736)
• United States
27 May 07
Hello!
I have to admit that sometimes I am sensitive but mainly when it comes to someone talking about issues that are dear to me. If it is something else that I just may have a different opinion about then I'm not that way. I will give me opinion and just realize that if someone else disagrees with me then that is their right. We can just agree to diagree LOL. :)
@DavidReedy (2378)
• United States
7 Jun 07
Thanks for the optimistic and lighthearted comment! Too bad all of life isn't so chipper and all people aren't so lighthearted. Peace.
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