{"id":6957,"date":"2013-08-22T16:43:40","date_gmt":"2013-08-22T20:43:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/?p=6957"},"modified":"2013-10-17T19:44:08","modified_gmt":"2013-10-17T23:44:08","slug":"when-humans-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/index.php\/2013\/08\/22\/when-humans-attack\/","title":{"rendered":"When Humans Attack!"},"content":{"rendered":"
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There was nothing<\/span> in the world I feared more then when humans attack.<\/p>\n

So much so, that for a long time, I did my best to avoid humans altogether. To avoid them meant I wouldn’t be attacked.<\/p>\n

I’d be safe.<\/p>\n

But, the attacks still happened, despite my attempt to control and prevent them. No matter what I did, I couldn’t control how you behaved.<\/p>\n

So I drove myself deeper into hiding. Thinking deep down there I would be safe.<\/p>\n

I couldn’t help but feel that I was somehow responsible. I couldn’t help but attach to what kept happening. I couldn’t help but be hurt by them.<\/p>\n

A loud motorcycle going by.<\/h1>\n

An attacking human, whether directing their stuff at me or not, is like a loud motorcycle going by.<\/p>\n

They jar me, and perhaps even scare me with their presence and noise, but beyond the distraction they create, they do not need to affect me any further.<\/p>\n

Their noise is not mine. I am not responsible to it.<\/p>\n

I do not need to attach to the noise you create, and hold on to it. I do not need to attach to the content of your attack.<\/p>\n

Like a motorcycle going by, I can’t control what you do. I may feel the shock of your actions, but I get to control how easily I recover from them.<\/p>\n

I have a choice in whether I attach to your noise, and let it hurt me further. Or just let it go.<\/p>\n

It’s just noise.<\/h1>\n

Unless I want it to be more.<\/p>\n

A motorcycle, and an attack, may always surprise and shock me, and I may never like the sound, but what happens next, once you do what you wanted to do, is always my choice.<\/p>\n

I can throw a dirty look at the driver, or cover my ears in protest, but the noise has already been created. I can’t change that.<\/p>\n

But once the noise and the distraction has passed \u2014 that is when my work begins.<\/p>\n

Do I attach to what happened and let it distract me further, or do I do what I can to let it go?<\/p>\n

How much do I want it to affect me? Can I let it be the loud motorcycle going by, that bothers me for a moment and nothing more?<\/p>\n

motorcycle analogy credit: Teya Sparks<\/a>, photo credit: 69Vagamundos<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

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\"photo<\/a><\/p>\n

There was nothing<\/span> in the world I feared more then when humans attack.<\/p>\n

So much so, that for a long time, I did my best to avoid humans altogether. To avoid them meant I wouldn’t be attacked.<\/p>\n

I’d be safe.<\/p>\n

But, the attacks still happened, despite my attempt to control and prevent them. No matter what I did, I couldn’t control how you behaved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7068,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[250,247,248,206,249,201],"class_list":["post-6957","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-growing","tag-attachment","tag-attack","tag-bullying","tag-control","tag-noise","tag-power"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6957","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6957"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6957\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7068"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}