When You Wake Yourself Up, Remind Yourself...
June 17, 2025
I recently confronted someone of an injustice.
Thinking there would be support in my statement from someone else present in the conversation, person #2 decided to side with person 1 because it was easier than standing with truth. Standing with what was right. Not standing with me - this is not a concern for me. But deciding to ignore the truth in favor of self-preservation.
The frustration was present within me. I was also disappointed. To help me in this situation, I opened a book to read and this is the passage I first read:
"When you wake up in the morning, tell yourself:The people I deal with today will be meddling, ungrateful, arrogant, dishonest, jealous, and surly. They are like this because they e an't tell good from evil..."Marcus Aurelius, Meditations 2.1
Person I in my confrontation is just playing their part. So is person 2. It is naive of me to expect anyone to stand with what I have to say or my observations. None of this was based on opinion, rather cold hard facts. Everyone played their part and so did I with the truth. With standing up for what is right.
In the moment I did feel steamrolled but upon taking some space, i'm glad I came across the passage I read to remind me that daily, I’ll face people like this. It helps so that I don’t take it personal and these types of people being experienced, means I'll have to deal with two less of them this month.