{"id":29099,"date":"2019-06-09T18:26:45","date_gmt":"2019-06-09T23:26:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/?p=29099"},"modified":"2019-06-09T18:26:45","modified_gmt":"2019-06-09T23:26:45","slug":"briefly-if-a-person-constantly-annoys-you-its-ok-to-cut-him-off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/?p=29099","title":{"rendered":"Briefly: If a person constantly annoys you, it\u2019s OK to cut him off"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I was raised in a very polite culture. We were nice to everybody, even the ones we didn\u2019t like. I carried this attitude into my adult life and even into social media.\u00a0But I\u2019m increasingly unwilling to put up with people who annoy me. A part of me feels guilty for saying that, but life is too short to put up with people who constantly annoy me. I have a choice. I can decline to associate with such people \u2014 without judging their worth as human beings \u2014 and there\u2019s no reason for me to feel guilty about it.\u00a0In some parts of my life, I don\u2019t always have an immediate choice about who crosses my path.\u00a0But I\u2019m responsible for choosing who I associate with in my personal life and on social media. My new rule of thumb is that if every comment someone makes causes me to scream, \u201cYou are a moron,\u201d<\/em> inside my head, he has to go. I don\u2019t mind people disagreeing with me because of differing values or reasoning, but there\u2019s no reason to tolerate those who constantly annoy us. We have to right and the power to choose who we associate with.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I was raised in a very polite culture. We were nice to everybody, even the ones we didn\u2019t like. I carried this attitude into my adult life and even into social media.\u00a0But I\u2019m increasingly unwilling to put up with people who annoy me. A part of me feels guilty for saying that, but life is Keep Reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[556],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29099","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-briefly","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1x9iR-7zl","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29099","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29099"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29099\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29102,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29099\/revisions\/29102"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29099"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29099"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29099"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}