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…