This relates to a passage in A New World where two monks are walking through driving torrential rain and come upon a village where a young lady needed to cross the road. The older Monk picked her up so she did not get muddy and carried her across the road. They went on their way and after around 5 hours the younger Monk said that they were not allowed to do that.
The older Monk smiled and said, I put her down hours ago.
So what I hear you say but it is that sort of thing we humans are extremely bad at. We hold onto stuff and the outrage grows from a small incident into something far worse.
Yesterday my mind moved over to this when I realised that there is every possibility that this guy making my life and the businesses life hell could all be about how he thought I might of made a fool of him even though he never said anything at the time about it. I certainly never said it although I am tempted to say it now.
He's let this brew on his mind and it has grown and grown and instead of the adult conversation where he could have said something to me and I could have apologised it's full on retribution and tribal warfare. For a word.....
No wonder I am feeling it as well as it is an unbelievable reaction and his actions are beginning to look like he's going to invade Poland! Could it be that all that effort and all that money has gone to a revenge vendetta because of a hurty word imagined in a conversation? The more I think about it the more that crystallizes and hones into sharp focus. "He's not a fool" well you could have kidded me as who would spend the time and energy trying to destroy their own business and for why?
Oh well, I have no idea what he will attempt to do next having exhausted his repertoire. Hopefully he will go away and never darken my door again - they never do, do they? I've seen it time after time as the red mist comes down and people do some pretty stupid things out of temper.
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