Does anybody else really hate being told to do something?
When I was younger I was very "I am woman hear me roar" but as I have gotten older I have mellowed with age, like a fine wine. As somebody told me for my recent birthday (of which I am now counting backwards) like a classic red, full bodied, elegant, fruity, getting better with age!
I will honestly do anything for anybody but the minute somebody tells me what to do I immediately get my back up and this stubborness kicks in. Even more so when it is blatently obvious and something that you do all the time and then, "they" go and ruin it by asking you to do it when you were always going to do it in the first place. That really gets my back up and I just get this overwhelming urge to dig my heels in stubborn refusal. Obviously I am talking about someone in authority that you can't just tell to bugger off. My husband often calls me little miss little miss can't be wrong, now he is totally wrong, I can be wrong I just don't like being told I am wrong!!!
Anyway I think my New Years Resolutions was to not sweat the small stuff so I am trying to remember that, and I think it was to do more Yoga. Well I was going regularly prior to the end of last year but as usual, I purchased a membership and haven't been since!! So next time someone asks/tells me to do something I will say a few oom's, breath deeply, smile through gritted teeth and just get on with it. If all that fails, I will blame it on my star sign, I am an Aries, Fire Sign, what can I say.....its not my fault, its in my genes.
Come on Ann - now you have to tell what it is you HAVE to do??? Have you done it yet? Was there yelling? The suspense is killing me.
ReplyDeleteNo yelling, I have mastered the perfect smile and nod all while saying what needs to be said with my eyes. A bit like in class when your eyes glaze over and you nod and smile at your students ha ha .....
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