It may not come naturally in the moment, but our aim should be to abnegate this bloated, boorish self and move towards our apparent aggressor. Lowering our expectations of the people around us is not to live at their whim and let them ‘get away with anything’; it is to stop obtruding our stories and priorities upon those of others and then whining when they don’t match up. Anger is just proof of how unrealistic your expectations were.
