The healthy way to react when someone’s annoying or mean is to be the bigger person. Embrace what’s happened, forgive them, and move on with your life. Or respond with unexpected kindness. But nobody’s ‘perfect.’ Sometimes, we can’t help but seek revenge to teach others a lesson. This is far more common than you might think.
The users of X, formerly Twitter, recently opened up about the pettiest things they’ve ever done in a viral thread that was viewed tens of millions of times. It is both a hilarious and low-key frightening read about the extent to which some people will go to punish others. Scroll down to see what they shared.
Bored Panda reached out to licensed professional counselor Rodney Luster, Ph.D., for his thoughts on the healthy way to react to people who we find rude, as well as how to be less responsive to insults, whether real or perceived. He shared how deploying a ‘forced opposites’ approach in the face of rudeness can have unexpectedly positive results. Dr. Luster is the founder of ‘Inspirethought’ and the host of the ‘More Than a Feeling’ blog on Psychology Today.
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