The way you feel and think in response to an event is a cho…
The way you feel and think in response to an event is a choice you make.
Being unaware of this choice, or denying it is a choice at all, merely leads you down your own path of least resistance, where mere habit reigns.
But that is fraught with perils.
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Anger, disgust, and bitterness are easy to feel in response to some insult or another, real or imagined, but that doesn't make these emotions helpful or wise to dwell upon.
After all, the river falls easiest down a waterfall, but that doesn't make it safe for you to travel that way.
It is not complicated, choosing to feel differently, or to temper your response to a slight, but simplicity does not imply ease.
It is hard to control yourself in this way.
But just as simplicity does not imply ease, difficulty does not imply wrongness.
Do what is right not because it is easy or because it is hard, but because it is right.
What better reason can one have to choose to change oneself than that it is right to do so?