Chapter 33 Perceptions of bus passengers

A bus passenger's outrage after being stabbed in the ankle by an umbrella tip vanishes when he turns his head. There was a man who took a bus on a rainy day, and the passengers were packed like sardines. In impatience, he suddenly felt someone's umbrella tip touch his ankle.He wanted to turn his head around and retaliate to that ignorant person, telling him to restrain himself.But the car was so crowded that he couldn't turn around at all.When the car swayed, the tip of the umbrella stabbed harder, and the anger in his heart gradually increased, thinking that he would have to reprimand the other party for a while.

After finally arriving at a big station and getting off some passengers, he finally had room to turn around. He angrily pushed the sharp umbrella tip away with his leather shoes, then turned around and glared at the unknowing passenger with the most severe expression. In the end, he found out that the other party was a blind woman, and what stabbed his ankle was not the umbrella tip he imagined, but her crutch! The uncontrollable anger in his heart suddenly disappeared without a trace, and the ankle seemed to no longer hurt so much. A person's emotional response, whether good or bad, is not actually a response to someone or something around you, but a response to the thoughts in your own mind.On the surface, the passenger's anger seemed to be directed at the person and event that stabbed his ankle, but it actually came from the idea of ​​how reckless and disrespectful this person was.When he found out that the other party was a blind woman, the above-mentioned thoughts changed. As a result, the anger miraculously disappeared, and even the pain was relieved.

When faced with something, we often speculate, explain ourselves, guess, and doubt in our hearts, and as a result, these thoughts give us real emotional reactions.Although these ideas are not necessarily fictitious, they will inevitably mislead our cognition.Changing our thinking can change our cognition, and the best way to change our thinking is to stop thinking about it, face reality and re-experience.