Write about a time when you didn’t take action but wish you had. What would you do differently?

Fighting is beneath me. I always say, that if I am yelling at anyone…we’ve lost the point along the way. I avoid arguments and fights like the plague. I cannot say the same for others around me.

People do not like when you want to diffuse an argument. They hate it, in fact. As if it infuriates them that you can remain calm.

I have learned no matter how calm I am, to walk away. I also don’t believe in apologizing for saying despicable things to get under someone’s skin – you meant what you said. Which is the major reason why I hate fights – I do not emotionally react. But having to constantly forgive and forget gets old…fast.

There are many times I was swallowed up in a fight simply because the person was angry and projecting, and I wish I would have walked away. But I didn’t realize this at the time, and needed to learn. Now, I disengage entirely. I state if you want to fight, you’ll be doing so alone, then I walk away. There’s never a reason to fight.

So the action I wish I took l…was that I walked away.