Why do I allow myself to be aggravated daily? Have you ever been going along through life and find that one day, you are just easily set off?
I seem to have a moment like that almost every day. Why is that man talking so loudly on his cell phone? Why is this person walking so slowly to the train? Why does that person always look put together and I look like I stepped out of a garbage heap? Why is that person stopping traffic through the use of a cell phone? Why is everyone honking in aggravation!?!? I find that I just want to scream and shake people out of a miserable existence and tell them to STOP AGGRAVATING ME…
I get this way because I allow myself to feel it. I boil inside because I let myself heat up.
Ironically, after I have one of these moments, I look up into the deep blue sky, among the clouds and think how amazing it is that God has put this whole thing together. How in one moment, breath He made life. Why do I let the enemy steal one moment from me –when all I have to do is look up and look forward to find God’s beauty among the ash heap?
I refuse to let daily aggravation run my existence.
Friday, November 2, 2007
Daily Aggravation.
Posted by Samantha at 9:24 AM
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I think we have all felt the same way at some point or another! My biggest pet peeve used to be cell phones. After all, what kind of friend accompanies you to lunch, only to talk on the cell phone with other people the entire time? How can people come into restaurants with their families and talk business over the cell throughout dinner? What kind of person can be on the cellphone so much, they can't even pause to say hi and give an order at a coffee shop or ice cream shop?
So I completely understand where you're coming from! At the same time, I've realized that these overly-connected people cannot be happy. Whether I see it or not, they are reeping the consequences. They're over-stimulated, they're stressed, and they're not establishing deep connections with the people around them, because they can't take more than ten minutes at a time to focus on anyone or anything. How miserable they must be!
I've learned to ignore these people and pity them. If someone comes up to my register on a cell phone, and doesn't put it down or tells me it'll be a minute, I simply move on to the next person. I don't even allow myself to react emotionally. Honestly, it's just too exhausting!
It's best, in my opinion, to just know that these people are simply unhappy people. Pity them, and recognize that you shouldn't stoop to their level.
When I see someone get angry (often at work!), I think, "Wow, that person must have the most miserable home life to be getting so mad at so-and-so over a cup of coffee."
There are a lot of frustrating things in the world. I know you're a happy person, though, so don't let them get you down. Don't stoop to their level! Be strong, be happy, and don't let stupid drivers and cell phone users ruin your day.
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