If we could read the secret history of our enemies, we would find in each man’s life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility.
Quote by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
REFLECTION:
- Everyone has a backstory…be it a co-worker, boss, family member, friend or enemy. There is no excuse for bad behavior but staying calm, soft-hearted and gentle may be a better way to be. More often than not, the person snapping is in need of compassion and loving kindness even if it seems they are the least to deserve it.
- Is it possible the person being unkind, disrespectful is really unhappy and suffering from low self-worth?
- Find out their back story…
- Try kindness.