How beautiful it is to stay silent when someone expects you to be enraged from them. And how beautiful it is to laugh when someone thinks you are going to shed tears. (unknown – Arabic).
A great many of us view the above adage as taking the high road, interpreting it as a positive and empowering stance. Yet, by looking at it more closely, we can begin to see that it is far from it. Like many quotes of its kind, there is aggression behind its alleged positive message. And although this writer may have had good intentions, proposing we rise above being affected by others, the message is retaliatory and misdirected. It is the low road. The revengeful laugh is nothing short of a royal, although implied, f*#k you. And the “don’t show ‘em you’re bothered” aspiration (as
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Kieran
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