One's right to show others how to treat you.....

Complaining, complaining, complaining.

How useless it is to complain, UNLESS..... Yes there is a HUGE 'UNLESS' here we cannot miss and one which makes ALL the difference.

Unless you do it right there, right then

Without fear or baggage

without mincing nervous words

or doubting ones intentions a million times over

to the very person who caused the injury

to the very situation in which it began

I hardly ever complain for GENERALLY if I am unhappy about you

YOU KNOW IT

right then

right there

fast and easy.....cut it like butter.

How futile and draining to spread discontent yet fear confronting its source with resolve

Is it better being killed while fighting

or laying there....waddling in fearful, quiet discontent?

I don't believe in turning the other cheek

or thanking one for being rude

as if there were a lesson rudeness could teach us

I agree, 'bumps' on the journey is an opportunity to learn,

grow,

change.

But in not respecting our own discontent and keeping it muffled

we can't change anything, not in us, or in them.

So next time you feel stepped on, or pushed, or stomped

speak up,

push back,

do it firmly, yet kindly

do it decisively, but without ugliness in the mix

You might just feel better about yourself

and allowed the other to

know how to treat others better.

“If you make an ass out of yourself, there will always be someone to ride you”

tecnico Bruce Lee "Your action should be like the immediacy of a shadow adapting to its moving object. Your task is simply to complete the other half of the oneness spontaneously. In combat, spontaneity rules; rote performance of technique perishes." _Bruce Lee