“Taking the L for Peace of Mind”

Sometimes it’s just better for your mental well-being to keep your thoughts to yourself & play innocent in order to move on from distracting conflicts and onto more peaceful shores. If you find yourself embroiled in any challenging or stressful disagreements, understand that coming to a compromise will be difficult & elusive. Petty nonsense and engaging in battles of ego make a situation unpredictable and hard to control. It may be regrettable that you can’t be heard or feel free to express yourself without a fight, but there’s too much discordant energy here to get anything accomplished. Everyone has an opinion & nothing useful comes from trying to beat someone over the head with it. The opposition cannot hear you right now, so give up on any possibility of trying to prove you’re right on this one.  Rather than trying to wrestle some sense into the argument, exercise self-restraint, cover your head and leave the worst behind you.  You’ve run out of options so embrace any opportunity to retreat from the battleground. This will create distance & allow time to collect your thoughts while seeking out allies with whom you can express yourself freely without judgement or blame. It’s better to move forward with the understanding that we are all trying to make the best decisions we can based on what we know or have experienced; actively making mistakes along the way while struggling to learn (hopefully) as we go. We just have to try to remember that there are always reasons why people behave the way they do. Sometimes they just don’t know or don’t want to know and no amount of protesting on our end is going to get them to see it our way. Speak your peace, be decent about it, forgive them if they attack you for it (it may be beyond their understanding at this point) then get out of there and leave it behind.