In this article, I continue with the other three agreements based on the book named The Four Agreements by Don Miguel Ruiz. I had previously written on the first agreement: Be Impeccable with your Word.
DON’T TAKE ANYTHING PERSONALLY
When someone hurls words at you, whether praise or poison, they are not defining you; they are revealing the landscape of their own world. Every insult, every judgment, every assumption they make about you is born from the script of their own internal story written long before you ever appeared in their frame.
Picture a vast cinema with multiple screens. You enter one and find yourself on the big screen, starring in “The Story of You.” It is your movie, and you are the director, the producer, the lead actor. The supporting cast? They are characters moulded by your perspective, fitting into roles you’ve assigned them. The Superior who never quite understood, the friend who betrayed, the formator who inspired, you see them not as they are, but as you believe them to be.
Now, step into another theatre, your Superior’s film. You recognise the faces, but the roles are unfamiliar. There you are, a character in her movie, behaving in ways you don’t recall, shaped by her script. You move to the next cinema, your Provincial’s movie. Only to find yourself yet again a different version, shaped by their beliefs, their experiences. You go to the next theatre, and the next, and after watching all the movies of the people you know, you realise that everyone distorts the characters in their movie.
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