The following blog posts were written on my original blog over five years ago. This article is part of my 37 Life Lessons From My Youth Series. Note: I’ve matured a lot since then and my “voice” has changed since. Enjoy.
Easily offended people don’t seek self-development and growth. They don’t want to listen and they don’t want guidance or help.
This is because they live in a fantasy where they don’t need to grow. And to even encourage growth is considered offensive to them.
Here’s An Example of the Type of Easily Offended Person I’m Talking About:
I remember having a roommate whose life revolved around smoking weed. At times, she was cool to hang with – since weed promotes social behavior.
But she would frequently cut class to smoke and experiment with self-destructive drugs.
She was an overweight woman who refuses to improve herself physically or mentally, and her social circle consisted of hoodlums.
Whenever anyone would make a comment that would even slightly imply that she spends a lot of her time smoking weed, she’d become offended and throw a tantrum.
I remember one day she complained that she was bored, so I kindly offered ideas of things for her to do.
I was yelled at for suggesting she can smoke at the park with her friends like she normally does.
Of course, she ended up dropping out of school due to failing grades. But not without being petty and slashing the tires to my car.
My educated guess would be that she owes over $10,000 in student loans and she has nothing to show for it
They Live In A World Where They Do No Wrong & Everything They Want Should Come To Them
Yet, they don’t realize that they are the cause of all of their own problems. Because they’re not as grounded to reality.
They’re experiencing some sort of denial. And their emotional distress is showing itself through their socially unhealthy behavior.
They deliberately attack people because they take offense so easily. Yet ultimately, they end up hurting themselves.
And it’s because they are their own poison. All because they refuse to grow.
Being easily offended is refusing to grow into reality. And setting out to hurt others is refusing to grow at all.
But they won’t see that and they won’t listen. It’s an awful cycle.
That’s why it’s important to grow and improve yourself every day. Encourage your own self-development.
Or else you’ll become that bitter person. Bitter from drinking your own poison.
Who will never realize – the only person to blame is yourself.
What Makes the Easily Offended Ignorant?
The weirdest part is this: the most easily offended people, are the most ignorant.
You would think that being easily offended would mean that you’re sensitive. And that sensitivity would translate to sensitivity towards others.
But it doesn’t.
They are ignorant towards everyone.
They’re so caught up with themselves, that they take their own self-pity to heart. That way it’s easier to commit acts of pettiness to hurt the other person.
The only thing that act of pettiness proves is that they’re a shitty person. When most times ‘the offender’, never even had the intention to deliberately hurt anyone.
It’s as if these people lack the ability of self-reflection.
Instead, they just look at a screen in their hands to keep their mind off the issue.
Anything to avoid the thought that maybe they’re the problem.
Not looking at the real issue – the true cause, is an unwillingness to grow.
That’s the same thing as self-harm.
They choose to be hurt.
Why would anyone do that to themselves? Would a sensible person do that to themselves?
