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Is "being offended" just an excuse for personal failure?
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September 11th, 2011
A comment in this thread got me to thinking…
http://www.fluther.com/129856/what-is-a-good-substitute-for-the-word-girlfriend/#quip2186009
A well meaning Jelly apologized for offending me.
Except, I was not offended. They must have figured I was a run of the mill Jelly. Oh well, that is neither here nor there.
However, it illustrates something that I find interesting.
“Being offended” is commen these days. But in the context that people are so frequently offended, it also seems to be an excuse to take a time out from doing what is needed to move onward and upward. If we can take time out to be offended, we have an excuse to stay in one place, and often enough that seems to be nowhere.
Why don’t people get over being offended, and get moving?
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