#shadow work exercise

✩ What’s something that other people do that annoys you? How does this reflect a part of yourself?

✩ What is something that sparks a short fuse in you (aka triggers you)? Why does this bother you so quickly and so much?

I chose to conciliate these prompts I found online cause the answer’s so similar. One of the things that bothers me the most in other people is when they’re overly confident and authoritarian, too self-assured, too assertive. I can’t tolerate that. To the extent that I always surround myself with people who are the polar opposite of that; all my best friends and past lovers are soft spoken, docile, sometimes a little insecure, sometimes even considered a “pushover”. I think my aversion to those cocky traits reflect who I used to be as a child/teenager. I used to be cheeky and rude (and way too confident for someone who didn’t know shit). I’d boss my friends around and I’d always have my way with everything, and I was a bully. I had to work on myself a lot to change and grow, but it worked, people I meet nowadays wouldn’t ever even guess that I used to be like that.