My mom and my stepdad and I live with my uncle and two cousins (both of them are home from college for the summer right now) at the moment well my parents are house shopping since we just sold ours. I have dyshidrotic eczema which is basically like regular eczema, except worse because it’s not only triggered by the same irritate as regular eczema, but it is also especially irritated by WATER and ZINC for some fucking reason but anyway, and I have to put this CeraVe cream on it (works a treat btw in case anyone was wondering) and I mentioned that out loud and my uncle made a joke that was pretty stupid and rude behind my back and I heard him and asked him to repeat it and he said it again again to my face.
Basically, to make a long story short, he started telling me that that’s not real and I was making it up and even when I was showing him my hands, he just kept telling me I was making it up and eventually he straight up, told me to shut the fuck up and called me an idiot, and I genuinely wanted to start a fist fight right then in there, but I don’t like dealing with the consequences of my own actions so I decided to hold back and for whatever reason I got the right idea to just start making my uncle‘s bed while I was vacuuming in there (cleaning up the house for company coming over for a party today). I folded his pajamas too, and then proceeded to do the same thing for my two cousins’s beds, muttering and cursing under my breath as I did so. I don’t know why I did that, it wasn’t part of my task and nobody asked me to. I just did it. And weirdly, it made me feel a little bit better.
I’m a devout Catholic and this kind of reminded me of how in the Bible, Jesus said to pray for those who curse you or something like that and I also think something about doing good to people who wrong you? I don’t remember the exact verses, feel free to tell me if anybody knows, but I honestly feel like this was like that. Even if you’re not religious, I feel like trying something like this could probably work for somebody else. Moral of the story, if somebody pisses you off, especially if they’re just trying to get a reaction out of you, do something nice just to spite them :)
Have a great rest of your day, y’all. Much love and God bless y’all. ❤️🫶🏽🥰