Stop Being Offended!
The world seems to have fallen down a very slippery slope of being offended about everything, and then shouting down our offenders with offensive remarks of our own.
The answer does not lie with making other people change their behaviour and stop offending us…it lies within ourselves and in our ability to refuse to be offended.
You can’t control what other people think, say or do, and getting angry at that person and telling them they are wrong only has the effect of emboldening that person’s point of view.
As with all things in life, you can only control the controllables. It is up to you to decide to not be offended. See the other person in a different light, see how they are stuck in a cognitive “caveman” pattern of having to defend themselves against anything that does not agree with their position, because that constitutes a threat to their survival.
Stop arguing with them. Stop trying to change them. You only have one course of action to improve your life…Choose to NOT BE OFFENDED.
If you can’t make this choice then you are the same as the person offending you, you are stuck in a “caveman” cognitive loop.
