You Talking To Me?

People are funny. Absolutely conceited so very much of the time. You can see this "all about me" attitude when someone posts something on Facebook, and before they know it, everyone is wondering they are the target of the offhanded comment about "those people." "Is he talking about me?" the person wonders, and usually, when I see something like that going on, I have to say that if you did something that would warrant such a comment, then yeah, probably. If the comment wasn't directed at you before, then it certainly is now (you know, since you wanted it that way).

Really, there is a solid test to determine whether any given applies to you. I know, you'll be all "but what if I did something that I didn't know about," and to that I'll ask that I speak to another one of your personalities that wasn't blacked out at the time of the incident.

The test is, "Did I do something that would lead to this comment?" Real simple. If yes, then apologize for your actions, then explain why you thought it applied to you, allow the ire of the person you wronged (and didn't know you wronged them) to cool down to the point that you can apologize for the now completely new sin you committed against them, and hopefully you can either reconcile that relationship or you have learned from the experience that unless someone directly tells you that you've done something against them, to simply leave it alone (or apologize when it happens).

This has been a public service announcement from a disinterested party who just wants everyone to relax and not take everything so darn personal all the time. Seriously, it isn't all about you.