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Old 07-01-2007, 01:16 PM   #3 (permalink)
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This may seem unusual, but I decided to become like the majority in this city (my native city!) and on this planet just to put arrogant and rude people in their place. I've never been a fan of defensive behaviour because it's a weakness and it's not noble. But when I noticed that even my Mom started bullying me every day, I said - enough! So, my task is to be rude and to talk back at least once a day with strangers, acquaintances, relatives, on message boards, etc. If there's no quarrelsome situation during the day (which is unlikely), I have to create it.
For a big part of my life I never stood up to anybody, I was never rude and as a result everybody walked over me. However I did not solve this through becoming rude myself and try to get even. Its difficult to explain how I did solve it, you probably need to experience it yourself. For me what changed was simply that I held myself to a higher standard of life and as a result this affected other people as well. I stopped living life for everybody else and start living my own life. Since than I've learned to say no more easily if it is congruent with my standards and goals. This doesn't mean I'm rude but everybody has accepted my answer so far. All I can think of is that there's a certain conviction behind my answer, they can hear that I won't budge no matter what.

So I hope this shows you another perspective to your situations and perhaps help you solve the problems in another way.
To prevent derailing this thread in any way I'd suggest that you start a new one if you need more information.



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Play horn daily.
Damn for a second there I thought you wrote 'get horny daily'...
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