If you want to learn how to not take things personally…
Simply meditate on the times when you did something that another took personally that was completely unintentional, misunderstood, or misconstrued. Times when you:
- Took your anger out on somebody who had nothing to do with what you were angry at.
- Underwent intense periods of growth/ change that made you less available and more distant to those you used to spend time with.
- Expressed an opinion that hurt/offended the person you were sharing it with, when you had a completely different person/ type of person in mind.
I think we’ve all been there.
The all-too-often shared reality we face as humans is that we often act selfishly before we think selflessly. We get consumed in being the center of our own worlds and forget about how our actions might affect the world of others.
The truth is: rarely does anything we do have to do with anybody other than ourselves and how we’re feeling.
So, when somebody does something that feels personal, remember, it most likely has nothing to do with you and everything to do with them.
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