4 Things I’ve Learned About Dealing With A**holes — Arianna Bradford

Assholes are everywhere, we know this. Who counts as an asshole is truly subjective, but the consensus seems to be that dealing with them is miserable and akin to a day of diarrhea and spotty cell phone service.

If you’re like me and you talk about things people don’t like to hear as much as I do, you sometimes deal with more than your share of assholes. It can be emotionally and mentally draining, and it can leave you feeling as if people are trash.

All of them aren’t, but some of them are. And you’ll deal with more of them than you’d ever truly like to.

But.

I’ve learned a good bit from talking to assholes, and I shall impart some of this wisdom to you. We start with a big one:

I can hear people hissing at me across the country. I promise that I’m right about this. And it will help you in the future.

Thing is, we hate giving any credit to shitty people. We want them to be wrong about everything because they’re being dicks, and a deep-set sense of justice within even the worst of us says that dicks don’t deserve victory.

They don’t, but sometimes they earn it, and we need to be open to granting it.