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How to Deal with Your Annoying Family or Your Annoying Self during a Pandemic
Life is rough enough as it is. It is chockfull of uncertainty which leads to anxiety. To then add a pandemic on top of that is the world showing us that what little control we thought we had can be taken from us.
Now that we have to stay indoors to stave off diseases of the body, we have exacerbated diseases of the mind.
We cannot ignore it anymore. It’s too obvious. Our family is annoying. Of course we always knew that but they’re unlocking new levels of irritation.
Or maybe they’re just unlocking old levels of irritation. Whatever the reason, your resentment is building to a boiling point and you don’t know how much more of that crap you can take.
But there’s another group of us with the opposite problem. We had distractions like work or relationships to blame but now it’s staring us right in the face. We have some serious problems and it explains why our lives have been what they’ve been.
The mild levels of self-resentment are increasing the more aware we are of our personal mistakes, programming and ignorance.
The worst part about both of these dilemmas is that the pain we feel can spill out onto others. That’s just how human beings work. We feel good, we can’t help but spill good…
