Posted by
lambeypie on Friday, February 09, 2007 7:44:06 AM
In the old days, people remembered the word that it is an honor to overlook an offense by another person. Only slowly did people become able to express that someone had offended them.
Being offended has become the rage: now we look for things at which to be offended. It doesn't matter how shallow or how thin the premise, let's get in there and be offended!
I say, get a job! get a life! If you want to rob yourself of all the fun and enjoyment in life, focus on how much you are being offended. That will take all the joy right out of life for you.
I am an auditor. If I took everything that people say seriously, I would damage my ability to go to work, to love life, to consider myself a whole person. I can't go on what others say. People say things - sometimes to joke, sometimes from fear. How much better we both are if I respond in love and life. Their fear is lessened and I can do my job.
We have moved from thinking that we are taking offense at what someone said (active), to thinking that we have been offended (passive) and can't do anything about it. You would be amazed what happens when you let these things go. How lovely life can be when we don't let ourselves be under the foot of what others say.
Come to think of it, isn't it mostly liberals who spend their time being offended?