He drives me crazy. She makes me so mad. They rile me to hit back. His insolence makes my head go haywire. Her smirk irks me to kill her. What can I do but react as he constantly undermines my effort. I just have to…I am forced to…I did not want to but he made me so upset.

These are daily familiar phrases at home and at office as well. We are fuming, we are crying, we are screaming, we are dying inside. These are the typical human reactions when things are not going our way. Conflicting situations give rise to conflicting emotions.

Dealing with stressful situations where the stressor is a person who is either a family member or an office member is very testing and challenging. While most people become a victim of these stressors, a few manage to cope with them better.

The fact that life is a total sum of actions and reactions is a pretty mundane statement. As it should be. However, considering that our reactions and actions get us what we want and more importantly, also what we do not want is not taken seriously.

The ability to decide what action to take is dumbing-down of intelligence, experience, etc. True, human nature is such that whatever happens well in our lives, we love to attribute it to ourselves, while things that do not go well are........

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