RE: Are you kind only to those who are kind to you?
September 2, 2015 at 12:00 am
(This post was last modified: September 2, 2015 at 12:02 am by Thumpalumpacus.)
(September 1, 2015 at 6:48 pm)Deidre32 Wrote: The residue of religion sometimes sticks to me after all this time where I remember hearing to be kind to one's enemies. And I've always thought "why?"
I don't think we need to return meanness for meanness but to me, I'm not pretending like someone treating me badly is ok. Does that make sense?
It does. Some of us are more pugnacious than others. What I tell folks is that I have a long fuse, but there's a bit of dynamite at the end of it. That doesn't mean that it's the right way for everyone, or even the best way I could handle it, but when my patience wears thin, I'm very blunt.