is hard!! I made the decision to be classy earlier this year, but it entails so much, from character to appearance. keep it up. the world needs more classy people.

but I would also like to control how sometimes I get upset over things…

One way is just to hold it in and not express hostility… However, I don’t believe this is the answer as building up stress inside of you is not good.

Therefore, I am really curious if I can find the root cause of why I behave this way… In theory, for example, if someone says something to contradict me, which would normally cause me stress, even if I know they are completely off-base, I should not let it bother me. In fact, I should even possibly laugh it off… Feel sorry for them how they could have gotten factual information so wrong. Or something like that…

In other cases, I think I should give the person the benefit of the doubt. for example, if someone says something to upset me, I should give them the benefit of the doubt and believe that they said it out of ignorance and not with the intent of upsetting me.

I believe stress causes primitive (ie, caveman) emotions to surface… and when is filled with those type of emotions, one cannot think clearly or creatively… which is what normally has to do to get out of those situations. So this would be another incentive for me to be able to control my reactions… but not be suppressing them but by understanding why they cause me to react that way and address the cause.