After sitting through a couple of traffic lights behind a car that wouldn’t budge, my friend got very annoyed.
He thought, what’s wrong with these people along with several choice expletives.
Finally, he angrily swerved around to get in the lane next to them. In the car was a man and a child in the passenger seat.
As my friend turned to the driver to give him a piece of his mind, the man asked, “Which way to the hospital? I have to take my child to the hospital, and I don’t know if I need to turn right or left.”
With this new information and perspective, his annoyance instantly left. He became fully engaged in helping.
Recently, a woman explained how she was quite bothered by something I’d said. She felt upset for months, since we had our last conversation. When we finally talked again, she told me that she didn’t know how I could’ve said such a thing and made analogies all pointing to why she should be indignant.
She assumed the story she was telling herself was correct, and therefore she was justifiably angry with me.
A couple of minutes into her explanation, when I realized she had totally misinterpreted the point I was making, I clarified what I had said. Very quickly, the story and irritation at me that she’d been holding onto for so long evaporated.
I suggested that, in the future, she talk with me if she had an issue rather than jump to conclusions.
If you find yourself upset about something and jumping to conclusions, take a step back and observe. Is this a one-time or ongoing occurrence? Might there be a different way of connecting the dots? There may be a different way of handling this.
Perhaps there’s a lesson for you to learn. Maybe there’s a different story you can tell about it and discover a new conclusion.
Are you using or misusing your imagination?
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Reprinted from Soulgoals’ Archives, February 4, 2019
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