If you are easily provoked…

…then you are easily controlled.

This is so true.

People that are being provoked are everywhere!

Including myself yesterday.

Which lead to the last post.

What other people think & do is of little concern to me.

Everyone is on their own path and has an infinite amount of reasons for why they are heading in a certain direction.

Nobody is on the same path.

Nobody has the same set of reasons.

You can only concentrate on & rationalise your own journey.

This doesn’t mean that you shouldn’t be nice to people, be generous & be humane. You should.

But…

Do not let yourself get provoked.

Especially when it is just words.

Words cannot harm you unless you let them (‘sticks & stones’).

It is entirely up to you how you react to words.

Do not get provoked.

It is like a form of bullying.

Bullies are trying to get a reaction. Trying to provoke. Trying to control you.

So if you know this form of bullying isn’t going to physical (‘sticks & stones’) e.g. Facebook post, a Tweet, an article etc

Then you know it cannot harm you.

Don’t react.

Only you can give those words ‘power’ to affect you.

Don’t be provoked.

Don’t be controlled.

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