People

Whenever someone has done something to bother, annoy, or offend me, I usually turn to anger. If I don't tell them that they have annoyed me outright, I stage a battle of wits between that person in my head until I imagine myself as the victor, and the other person sorely humiliated. This normally makes me feel a lot better.

I think I need to start trying a new approach though. I'm going to not let people get the best of me. If they say something rude or offensive, I'm just going to ignore it.

I admit, this may be a difficult task for me because I can be very hot headed, and will insist on letting that person know that they have angered me... or, simply put, gotten the best of me. I realize how I shouldn't let anyone get to me in that way because it just gives their hateful intentions more of a purpose. It adds more fuel to their spiteful flames.

I can safely say that I will just learn to be the better person in every situation that the better person is, in fact, needed since not everyone knows the importance of having a "better person" in an argument. There always needs to be someone who can actually begin the "making up" process in any situation, and I intend on being that person.

"You embarrassed me in front of everyone, but it's OK. Let's try to find out why you did that.."

"I felt that you were instigating a problem between myself and so and so, but that's fine... I just want to know if you were instigating and if so, why?"

and so on...

Should be cake right?

I mean, I can always argue with the person in my imagination afterwards. I'll always win that way.