Sometimes I hear myself saying, "but I just can't this" or "I just have to that." Of course, the obvious question becomes, "Says who?"
The equally obvious answer-history, politics, religion, culture and all that aside- says noone. When do you draw the line, and when do you just tell yourself not to?
Someone says somethng to you and your knee-jerk reaction is, "Well that was rude/inappropriate/whatever." Yet, we rarely, if ever, say anything. Even if the person is emotionally close enough to us where we might feel comfortable discussing virtually everything, we don't tell them the comment was out of line- or, if we do, we feel guilty like "I'm making a big deal over nothing" because the other person is storming, fuming or insulted. The kicker is- THEY initiated it in the first place, didn't they?
How do stupid situations like this arise in the first place? So many unspoken etiquette rules and regulations that we somehow learnt? It's like a secret club of covert operations designed to guilt trip us for calling people out when they need to be.
Right?
