Then it can be said that you are the only one responsible for your feelings. Such that zero external entities can force you to ‘feel’ anything, it is what you allow and how you manage such responses. The existence of a feeling negotiates its expression with you, and as you begin to practice mindfulness, one would begin to lengthen the time of these negotiations as to how something will be expressed. Hurt is in the mind, and it is a choice. All is a choice. One can only be ‘offended’ by the communication of another, should that communication strike a chord that has a lack of security in self. Why does that trigger you so? That is the real question, and as you continue to ask ‘Why?’, finding the true root of the issue will provide a far better outcome than directly expressing toward the other in some manner. Communication operates two-prong, and as the listener in this context, the fault can fall to you as to why their objectively simple communication negotiates feelings as such.

Lashing out < Working through it.

Meditate.

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