Are You a Stupid Idiot?

Everything you do affects everything else, so what are you doing?  angry man Are You a Stupid Idiot?

angryman Are You a Stupid Idiot? I witnessed a man get so angry and frustrated that each minute just got worse.  He was gripping his steering wheel and driving angrily along the freeway calling out to everyone, “Are you a stupid idiot?” When in reality, he was the one being an idiot.  Observing him made me feel like a scientist studying an alien species.  Actually, I felt like a whole human watching another human stuck in their humanness.

He was mad about everything and everything bad kept happening to him to make him madder. It was like he was pulling anger towards him with the huge magnet of his mind.  I said maybe he was creating all frustration with the energy he was putting out.  That irritated him.  I didn’t take it personally or dive into the chaos with him. I just stayed present and offered my support and guidance when I could.  I get cranky when I’m hungry so I searched for food on my phone but not quick enough. He raced to a place he knew.  He scrapped his car on the curb as he parked.  When he got out of the car a twenty dollar bill miraculously flew from his pocket and disappeared.  I suggested that was the universe taking an anger tax.  Then he dropped his phone and it broke into pieces.  I said he should show down.  He paced. I asked him if he could tell that he was doing all this to himself.  He could see it but he felt too mad to get out of it.  Breathing helped.  Walking helped.  Eating helped since he had missed lunch he said.  When I did a funny little freaky dance move, that helped. He asked what I was doing and I said I had to shake off his energy because it was affecting my space.  Then he stopped.

Now, whiloveyousquish 300x54 Are You a Stupid Idiot? omever clicked on this post because someone has called you a stupid idiot before, I’m so sorry.  The same theory of everything you do affecting everything else applies in your case too. It’s time to rewire those neuro pathways in your brain.  Whoever said that was in their own stuff tossing out their own anger, frustration, anxiety etc. It’s now a matter of what you do with it.  Do you toss it onto others or do you toss it in the trash and give yourself love?  By the way, the I love you, squish is backwards so you can see it in the mirror when you wear the T-shirt.   Nothing like looking in the mirror and changing what you’re saying to the world. It affects how you see it too.

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  • janieblakely

    A–my whole life I have sought how to live out the core of my beliefs to “Love your neighbor as yourself.” You have not only showed us how to do that here–but showed us even more. The truth of what you are saying here spirals deeper and deeper. It goes even beyond “loving my enemy.”

    Your words here are teaching us that loving our neighbor, loving our enemy, and loving ourselves is the same thing. Just as hating our neighbor, hating our enemy and hating ourselves is the same thing.

    And it is no small thing that you chose driving in the LA area as the VERY real place for you to live the truth of the healing you would share with us. It is a very real war zone in our day-to-day lives. An no mistake about it–road rage is a killer. I have probably used my Sword of Trauma against others more on the roads of LA, Chicago, South Africa and DC than any other place in my life. I think it's because of the anonymity being behind the wheel affords me.

    I see so clearly in the post that in courageously living out your hard won love and truth, by loving this driver you first turned him from your enemy into your neighbor. In doing so, you offered him the opportunity to see you and perhaps care about you too. Even more importantly though, in humanizing him–you kept your own humanity for you–loved yourself and then wrote this article sharing that love with us.

    Thank you, Angela Shelton. The next time I am tempted to allow road rage (either mine or my neighbor's) to retraumatize me or others–I will seek to remember the squish you gave us here with all my heart, soul and mind. And I will be living my truth in the depths for which my heart has longed since I can remember.

    Ah luhv yew, Squiiii-iiisshhhh!
    JB

  • Janie B

    A–my whole life I have sought how to live out the core of my beliefs to “Love your neighbor as yourself.” You have not only showed us how to do that here–but showed us even more. The truth of what you are saying here spirals deeper and deeper. It goes even beyond “loving my enemy.”

    Your words here are teaching us that loving our neighbor, loving our enemy, and loving ourselves is the same thing. Just as hating our neighbor, hating our enemy and hating ourselves is the same thing.

    And it is no small thing that you chose driving in the LA area as the VERY real place for you to live the truth of the healing you would share with us. It is a very real war zone in our day-to-day lives. An no mistake about it–road rage is a killer. I have probably used my Sword of Trauma against others more on the roads of LA, Chicago, South Africa and DC than any other place in my life. I think it’s because of the anonymity being behind the wheel affords me.

    I see so clearly in the post that in courageously living out your hard won love and truth, by loving this driver you first turned him from your enemy into your neighbor. In doing so, you offered him the opportunity to see you and perhaps care about you too. Even more importantly though, in humanizing him–you kept your own humanity for you–loved yourself and then wrote this article sharing that love with us.

    Thank you, Angela Shelton. The next time I am tempted to allow road rage (either mine or my neighbor’s) to retraumatize me or others–I will seek to remember the squish you gave us here with all my heart, soul and mind. And I will be living my truth in the depths for which my heart has longed since I can remember.

    Ah luhv yew, Squiiii-iiisshhhh!
    JB

  • janieblakely

    A–my whole life I have sought how to live out the core of my beliefs to “Love your neighbor as yourself.” You have not only showed us how to do that here–but showed us even more. The truth of what you are saying here spirals deeper and deeper. It goes even beyond “loving my enemy.”

    Your words here are teaching us that loving our neighbor, loving our enemy, and loving ourselves is the same thing. Just as hating our neighbor, hating our enemy and hating ourselves is the same thing.

    And it is no small thing that you chose driving in the LA area as the VERY real place for you to live the truth of the healing you would share with us. It is a very real war zone in our day-to-day lives. An no mistake about it–road rage is a killer. I have probably used my Sword of Trauma against others more on the roads of LA, Chicago, South Africa and DC than any other place in my life. I think it's because of the anonymity being behind the wheel affords me.

    I see so clearly in the post that in courageously living out your hard won love and truth, by loving this driver you first turned him from your enemy into your neighbor. In doing so, you offered him the opportunity to see you and perhaps care about you too. Even more importantly though, in humanizing him–you kept your own humanity for you–loved yourself and then wrote this article sharing that love with us.

    Thank you, Angela Shelton. The next time I am tempted to allow road rage (either mine or my neighbor's) to retraumatize me or others–I will seek to remember the squish you gave us here with all my heart, soul and mind. And I will be living my truth in the depths for which my heart has longed since I can remember.

    Ah luhv yew, Squiiii-iiisshhhh!
    JB

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