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The Mirror
Daily Meditation 612 — 10/30/2023
Surely you have met a “habitually bitter person” in your life.
They seem to limp through their lives and career…
Each day, they clock in as late as they can, sighing incessantly and grumbling over every email or task. You dread working with them on assignments or committees. Every other utterance is a gripe or complaint.
These bitter people never seem to have lasting relationships, and if they do, they seem “doomed” to magnetize only the most needy unloveables, completely devoid of self-esteem and willing to flagellate themselves by being bound to the eternal complaining of the habitually bitter person.
But finally, the habitually bitter person never seems to have a good interaction with anyone.
A waitress may accidentally forget to remove the bell peppers from the ticket…
A co-worker might make a sarcastic joke about their sweater or hair…
A friend may remark how they’re terminally tardy…
And, in return, there’s no half measure. No remorse.
Just a vitriolic, terse comment about the other person. Perhaps even a cutting slight.
Then, later on, this habitually bitter person likely remarks how nasty the world is and that no one seems to…
