Do you walk away in silence when you are insulted?
By Dinu024
@Dinu024 (315)
India
July 14, 2009 8:31am CST
Lately one of my friends(not a close guy but i felt he wasn't worth telling such words about me) gave me a very very nasty insult in front of the whole class. I was too depressed with his words that my eyes were filled. Words cam rushing to the tip of my tongue but someway i managed not to speak and left the class in silence putting my head down. I felt better after sometime but, i again felt a fury in me when i saw him again. I almost felt the pulses of my heart, every word he said was ringing in my ears like he had just mentioned them. Only then i thought i should have shed my anger out there at the very instant i wanted too.
How about you, do you walk away in silence and later feel angry on him or do you throw your anger on him on the very instant he insulted you?
3 responses
@dmercedes (59)
• United States
11 Oct 09
Walking away in silence... I don't think so. I don't really walk away in silence from anything, but it really depends on how I'm feeling. If I'm dying, what can I say to the insultor? If I'm not dying, what can I not say to the insultor? It can be a win win or a win for me and a lose for the insultor.
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@jshekhar (1562)
• India
14 Jul 09
Hello friend,
When someone tries messing up with you for no reason, I think you should hold your ground and answer him back in a harsher tone, so that he doesn't even consider attacking you again with his words.I know its easier said than done but still, I would never walk away like that, saying nothing. It is a quiet acceptance to his words and gives him extra strength.
@Dinu024 (315)
• India
15 Jul 09
Hello shekhar,
I feel you are haven't understood my point. I was talking about being humiliated, insulted, teased for no reason whatsoever. In this case if you stand and quarrel, i don't know if it will do good. As lairofmetal above said, you should walk away in silence only then they won't pull our legs again. Coming to your point, we can consider your view when we are blamed for fault which wasn't our doing. In such a situation if you walk away in silence, then you are accepting that fault to be yours. Hope you get my point of view.
@renemouche (843)
• United States
14 Jul 09
Well sometimes like you I get every emotionaly when someone says something hurtful to me. My eyes swell up with tears and even thought I can think of a clever come back I cant really say it. I usually just roll my eyes and laugh if off, to let the person think that it really didn't effect me.
