"Be like a snake; Only bite if someone steps on you" -Taylor Swift This morning I was listening to a Podcast by Kalyn Nicholson - Go check out here Coffee Talk Podcast if you haven't already- Anyway, she took this considerable dive into emotions and how to stick up or yourself by imitating a snake. Weird concept- I know. But, as she went on to explain, I started to understand. Snakes are very go- with- the- flow creatures until they are stepped on (or made to feel as if they are in danger). Someone could be mowing their yard, and the snake will move, or if someone moves the rock it was sleeping under it will quickly move away, why? Because snakes only want to fight back when they need too. As people, we could really take a lesson from this. Let's be honest 9 times out of 10 we react to situations (i.e., comments, things people say, or the actions of others) in the way of the snake- we strike. When I was listening to the Podcast, this was described as reacting with your ego. Your reflex is to respond to your bruised ego based in your own insecurities. For instance- the self-doubt we feel within ourselves- if we feel shameful or aren't confident with who we are as individuals- we protect our ego and strike. Heres the thing- this really isn't the healthiest way to handle these situations. This is where that Taylor Swift quote comes into play. We as a society need to learn only to strike if we are genuinely being stepped on. We have to determine if the hurtful words coming at us are something we should be taking personally or if they a merely a reflection of someone else's insecurities. If we try to take the words someone says in as if we had thought them ourselves- only then can we know how we should react. When choosing to react, we must again, respond without our ego. Express how we fell based on an action, not reiterate what someone did to us. This is SO much easier said than done! Trust me, I am working very hard to "only bite when stepped on." I challenge all of you out there to try and do the same. XOXO, Hunter
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Hunter FergusonHolding her Associates of Arts in Political Science, Implementing Beneficial Community Project, and having Led a Student Collaboration team at her college of attendance- Hunter chooses to blog about the world around her as well as her personal experiences in hopes of creating a Powerful group of like-minded people. Archives
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