by Dwayne Phillips<\/p>\n
I observe that some people will transfer the power over their lives to people whom they disdain.<\/strong><\/p>\n I find this odd, but I find it often. Some people will give other people power over their lives. The conversation goes something like this:<\/p>\n Person A: “That person is ruining my life!”<\/p>\n Me: “How is that?”<\/p>\n Person\u00a0A: “Why, they said a bad thing about me!”<\/p>\n Me: “And how does that ruin your life?”<\/p>\n Person\u00a0A: “Why, why, why, well what do you mean? Don’t you understand how that makes me feel?”<\/p>\n Me: “So that person controls how you feel?”<\/p>\n Person\u00a0A: “Of course!”<\/p>\n Me: “When did you give them that power?”<\/p>\n Person\u00a0A: “Why, you just don’t understand.”<\/p>\n Me: “I agree with you on that point.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n What I find more odd to the odd is that Person A will give this power to someone whom they disdain. The above conversation will start with:<\/p>\n Person A: “That little so-and-so is ruining my life!”<\/p>\n The remainder of the conversation proceeds as above.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Take the first statement and replace “so-and-so” with your favorite deragatory term for a small, powerless being. Some of the words I have heard include twerp, twit, skunk, idiot, and a number of nouns I will not repeat here.<\/p>\n The point is that Person A is giving a powerless being to power over their life. Again, I find that odd, but I find that often.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" by Dwayne Phillips I observe that some people will transfer the power over their lives to people whom they disdain. I find this odd, but I find it often. Some people will give other people power over their lives. The conversation goes something like this: Person A: “That person is ruining my life!” Me: “How […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,10],"tags":[154,133],"class_list":["post-1188","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-communication","category-people","tag-communication","tag-people"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1188","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1188"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1188\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1189,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1188\/revisions\/1189"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}