A Facebook friend posts about all the stupid and fake people in her world who create drama and start pointless fights for attention. I joked  “they’ve got you good if they’ve got you talking about them.” She then began name calling me and saying I “consistently” belittle her.  I have never met this woman.  I’ve made maybe 5 comments thru the years on her posts, none negative. I was the only one who donated to her online request for $$ years ago. When people are stuck in their own head, don’t try to make it make sense. It has nothing to do with you. You are triggering something in them and they don’t know what else to do with how they feel. They’ll say you said and did stuff you did not so they can play- act the other side of the conversation for their audience. Don’t get irked when that happens. I consider it an honor when someone publicly uses me as the scapegoat to work out their own reflection. That tells me I’m in their life for soul growth. Knowing that, I consider it an honor and deeply bow. I bless them and take my focus off it.

NOTE: If you find yourself doing this, you might ask yourself why do I feel compelled to attack this person?  Why do I feel compelled to exaggerate and lie about any person or situation, ever?  What am I hoping to elicit from my audience? What benefit do I receive by doing it? What in me is so broken that I need to act like this? What do I expect to come back to me if I treat people like this?  Life begins once you stop the drama and drop all pretense.