But What if I Don’t Want to Be the Bigger Person?

Let me be the petty, unreasonable one, for once!

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My parents raised me to be the bigger person. “When they go low, you go high,” my mother — who happens to be the most patient person in the world — would say.

“An eye for an eye leaves the whole world blind,” my dad would explain. “ If someone tries to pick a fight and is…