“Hurt”

When a person does or says something that hurts you, you have a choice. You have a choice to let it hurt you and affect the rest of your day, or to practice this skill of control and decide how what they did is going to make you feel, and what your reaction is going to be. Why can't you decide that hurt makes you realize that the other person is an idiot? could it be that this person is hurting you because they are hurting themselves so instead you feel pity for them. Remember, how you feel is an emotion that you have control of. Your reaction to that emotion will be based on exactly how much control you have. Every reaction has a consequence and sometimes that consequence will hurt you a lot more than the person that hurt you.