WARNING: Those offended by coarse language should proceed with caution or simply not read any further. It's not a mine field of curses, but I'm aware that some people find it difficult to take even one utterance of the lesser curse words and so I offer this disclaimer. You have been warned. You're welcome.
Whenever one has an encounter with an asshole, one of the possible judgements of the situation and the person might be "What a tool!". With my recent and ongoing thinking about words, meanings, and treatment of other people and of myself, it struck me that this is actually an excellent assessment.
Tools are used to accomplish things, whether it be breaking things down into easier-to-manage components or taking such components and making something out of them. These assholes and encounters with them are tools that we can use in our forward march through life. Encounters with assholes could serve any number of purposes:
• It could serve as an example of how we do not wish to be.
• It could remind us – partially or completely – of habits and tendencies we used to exhibit, giving us an idea of how far we've grown and evolved as a person.
• Our feelings after an asshole encounter can remind us of how our words could possibly affect other people if our roles were switched – and make no mistake: roles always eventually switch.
• Any number of things that hasn't occurred to me yet
So regardless of if your encounter is with an asshole, bitch, bastard, bully, dickwad, fuckwad, dickweed, fucknugget, fuckbucket, fuckhead, cockmaster, waste-of-space, assmaster, douchebag, assrag, jerk, or a run-of-the-mill, all-purpose inconsiderate fuck, try to recognize that this person is just simply a tool. The issue afterwards is if that tool is going to be influential in building up or tearing down a changed you. That choice – that process – is up to each of us.
Whenever one has an encounter with an asshole, one of the possible judgements of the situation and the person might be "What a tool!". With my recent and ongoing thinking about words, meanings, and treatment of other people and of myself, it struck me that this is actually an excellent assessment.
Tools are used to accomplish things, whether it be breaking things down into easier-to-manage components or taking such components and making something out of them. These assholes and encounters with them are tools that we can use in our forward march through life. Encounters with assholes could serve any number of purposes:
• It could serve as an example of how we do not wish to be.
• It could remind us – partially or completely – of habits and tendencies we used to exhibit, giving us an idea of how far we've grown and evolved as a person.
• Our feelings after an asshole encounter can remind us of how our words could possibly affect other people if our roles were switched – and make no mistake: roles always eventually switch.
• Any number of things that hasn't occurred to me yet
So regardless of if your encounter is with an asshole, bitch, bastard, bully, dickwad, fuckwad, dickweed, fucknugget, fuckbucket, fuckhead, cockmaster, waste-of-space, assmaster, douchebag, assrag, jerk, or a run-of-the-mill, all-purpose inconsiderate fuck, try to recognize that this person is just simply a tool. The issue afterwards is if that tool is going to be influential in building up or tearing down a changed you. That choice – that process – is up to each of us.
