Taking the L
How do you take it when your enemy wins? When you are down in the count, out of time, and the victor is dancing over your defeat...how do you tend to respond? I get knocked down, but I get up again. Ain't NOTHING gonna break MY stride. I have not figured this one out, yet. I am a terrible loser. True, I have learned to take it better over the years, but there are still certain losses I can NOT tolerate. What instantly comes to mind is when the victor is particularly insensitive in their celebrations...and I am most sensitive when my child is their victim. However, there are an untold number of situations of my own. For example: when a lesson doesn't land well; when, a client doesn't seem to click with me; when I am in a group of people, and I feel excluded; when someone admonishes me with snooty silence or non-verbal judgments...; when a friend I thought was close just up and ghosts me. I am continually heartbroken by every failed relationship I ca...