Choosing to avoid when you can hold on to fights
I’ve always wondered if being kind actually does good to you or does it take a toll on you when you’re being selfless? But I guess people are wired in a particular way and they actually don't have many options. They'll end being that way, no matter how hard they try to behave otherwise. So, it happened to me a few days back when I saw my phone flashing a call from the person who had been the cause of much mental agony for the past half-year. Unwillingly, I picked up the phone to see what it could be now that needs to be said (for I never got any call from them earlier, instead I got to know what they said about me from other sources). I asked about their well-about, letting out my voice as if nothing had happened. All of a sudden, they became more than sweet to me. It was our first one-to-one conversation since. That day onwards, I started getting calls from them almost daily, asking for help in work-related issues. Call it naïveté or what, but I gave them solutions to the b...