The Irritation Game

A little game I like to play with myself is to look inside and find out what I am irritated by. It's fun because it always helps me move forward and always keeps me honest with myself.

If you aren't honest with yourself, then you are destined to keep running in that hamster wheel of life.

Here's what I do:  I either catch myself at the moments when I find myself irritated at other people or sometimes I simply look inside and figure out what my triggers are. Then I ask myself why. Why am I irritated by this person or triggered by a particular thing? And the same answer comes up time and time again. There is something that I don't like about myself or something that I am not being honest about.

For instance, people who act like they know stuff REALLY has the power to irritate me. Why? Well, I have played the know-it-all act for most of my life. Acting as if I know the answers. The reality is, as I have said here before on the blog, is that I don't know shit. (Keep that in mind anytime I act like I do or write as if I do)

So, that's why people that act like they know stuff annoys me. Because it is a part of myself I dislike. In fact, I challenge anybody to take an honest look at the things that trigger them and you will find that it is intimately linked to something that you don't like about you.

We are much better off behaving and thinking like the ignorant beings that we all are. Socrates said, "I do not think that I know what I don't know." And he further explained that the only real difference between him and other people was the fact that he had an understanding of his own ignorance.

The only things we know for sure is that we are experiencing the world with our own senses. Oprah actually has a list of Things She Knows For Sure   I actually kind of like her list, but these things are true for her and you have to verify them for yourself. And the question I would ask is, how do you really know for sure each and every time? Make your own list, but beware that they are mainly just your own thoughts and opinions and that we actually really don't know shit ; )