THINGS worth giving up… Verbal arm wrestling, the need to be right, to outwit, to have the last word or to win every debate at all costs.
The impulse to be stronger, bigger, more important than anyone and everyone, to expect to be served, honoured, and call the shots, to think that waiting and patience is for other people, people of lesser importance.
The compulsion to talk over others and to talk, sometimes incessantly, rather than listen.
Playing bigger (bullying) or smaller (playing the victim) to manipulate and to get what you think you want. The shiny front, the perfect façade, that attempts to hide pain or deflect others from knowing about the pain and turmoil brewing in the core of your being.
Revenge, payback of any sort, for any…
