learn how to be nicer to people who irritate me

I have found that people do not read my facial expressions well. I landed here because of an experience I delt with yesterday. I am afraid that I am going to say something that really makes someone mad. I do not think it as much my words as it is my facial expressions that peoepel take the wrong way.

its really hard for me and we always seem to get into some kind of arugment so i wanna try really hard that is my new years resolution

Ok, so quite obviously totally delusional when I thought of this goal..I have such a low tolerance and once a person starts irritating me, it really becomes a point of no return..
I may need a whole pile of help on this one, because I am such a nitpicker, I can understand why people wouldn’t be nice to me…i must annoy the crap out of them

Well, technically I’ve incorporated this goal into “age gracefully”. Figured it wasn’t fair to stretch them out like that & have a bunch of goals that are really the same.

And I’m still undecided about whether it is worth it to be nicer to irritating people or not!

I can’t decide if it’s them or me. I guess really what it comes down to is learning how not to let things (or people) irritate me. Just let it go! It’s very difficult because I tend to have very clear opinions on what’s right and what’s not right and often find very few good reasons why things should not be right. Like people who cut in front of you in traffic and then slow down, like people who think it’s okay to be rude via e-mail but wouldn’t dare do so in person, like parents who tell their children “Mommy doesn’t love you” (yes, I actually overheard that once!).