What Is a Good Person But Someone Who Can See Beyond the Wrongdoings of Others Without Pitying or Excusing Them?
How to actually influence wrongdoers
He handed me a book, but before he had finished elaborating on its content, I interrupted sharply, “I can’t read more in Spanish now, I need to focus purely on English reading materials…” while noticing my own hyperbolically peeved reaction.
It was a book written by some Chilean author, partly relating to anxiety and neuroticism, and included different things one could do to combat anxiety and find calm.
In my mind my thoughts were spinning: He talks like I know nothing about anxiety. Like I need to read this book of his. But all he — himself — ever talks about is different mechanisms of distracting oneself from it. Pretend like it doesn’t exist and it will automatically vanish? Yeah, right. That’s the advice he wants to give me. I tried that most of my life — it didn’t work. And it seems he’s completely forgotten what I’ve said for a good time, I can only focus on English literature, no matter how much I want to refine my Spanish, I can’t invest in more than one language at the time.
So I found a way of indirectly critiquing him while also offending the book I hadn’t even read.
