Always, I am learning. Sometimes without my consent. Or awareness.
Sometimes people push us. They are rude and childish and treat us unfairly. In some cases, what we’re learning, perhaps a lifelong lesson, is that their behavior has little or nothing to do with us. It feels personal, but in actuality, it very rarely is.
People are not all on the same level of emotional, mental, or spiritual maturity. They’ve never worked on themselves to grow emotionally. They act out of patterns that they were taught all their lives, and are still being taught.
We might even behave the same way at times. The difference is that some of us try really hard to bring our most emotionally mature self to the table, and the other, while nodding their head, doesn’t really understand what we’re talking about.
Others’ lack of emotional maturity doesn’t excuse rude and childish behavior towards us. It does, however, shed a light on how we need to deal with them, or if we even want to deal with them at all, given the choice.
Having a better idea of what it is that I’m learning, and where I’m going with it, is one of the reasons that I journal every day. Knowing what we know is a good thing.
Still A Dreamer 
This really resonated with me, especially because I literally wrote about this in my soul homework this morning. I was thinking about how easy it is to take someone’s behavior personally when, so often, it really has very little to do with us. I love that you mentioned journaling as a way of figuring out what we’re learning and where we’re going with it. That is exactly why I write, too.
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Most of the time, we hum along and everything is going just fine, but every now and then we deal with people who, as nice as they are, are emotionally immature. They might act out, behave childishly, passive aggressively, etc. You know.It’s frustrating, especially when you’re behaving like an adult. 😜 And so we write!!
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