Don't Take It Personally | Daily Quote #477
You will come across, and be faced with, a lot of unlikable behaviour, but don't take it personally...
“Today I shall be meeting with interference, ingratitude, insolence, disloyalty, ill-will, and selfishness – all of them due to the offenders’ ignorance”
Marcus Aurelius, Meditations
You will be slighted everyday of your life in one way or another. Someone will be rude to you. Someone will be dismissive. Someone will cut you up in traffic. Someone will be ungrateful. Someone will let you down. The list could go on and on.
We need to remember that 99.99% of people are not doing these things out of malice. They are only acting in a way which they believe is most appropriate, or are so caught up in the own world they do not realise the ways in which they are affecting you as a result. They are not aware. They are ignorant.
We must shine the light back on ourselves too. We too will be ignorant of the ways in which we have inflicted pain on other people. Did we do it on purpose to slight them? No. So, why do you suppose someone has it out for you? Do not take it personally.
Today, and everyday, you will be met with many ills - all of them due to the offenders’ ignorance.
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