“Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.”
Carl Jung
I love this quote. I have found it to be consistently accurate.
And even though it takes me an eternity before I eventually apply it to myself, every time I do, it strikes me how precisely illuminating it proves to be.
See, we all feel triggered by particular situations, particular environments, and particular people.
Especially people.
Perhaps there is that co-worker that you just cannot stand.
That customer whose head you want to bite off.
Or even that kid who drives you up the wall.
But before you write that person off as “evil”, “purely a bad person” or simply, an “asshole”, turn the mirror towards yourself and ask:
“What is it about this person that irritates me?”
For it is usually not the other person’s fault that we find ourselves irritated.
Nor is it them that our anger is directed towards.
Just as Jung – the famous psychiatrist and psychotherapist – stated with utmost conviction, it is usually a part of ourselves that we are really irritated at; yet to make peace with; or are secretly insecure about.
Your response to these situations, environments and people is within your control and therefore it is your responsibility.
To use these as a lesson, in helping you to gain, a deeper understanding of yourself.
CHANGE IS THE POINT 