Getting Defensive

Oh! I can’t stand it when someone says, “You don’t need to be so defensive.”

As if being defensive is

a sin.

As I see it, being defensive is data.

That is, if I’m feeling defensive, there is only one explanation for it:

I’m feeling attacked.

Two important words here:

attacked, of course,

and

feeling.

Feeling attacked is a purely subjective experience. It is an im…