Being the Elephant in the room

As humans, we tend to treat others the way they treat us right? talk of tit for tat. When you are doing the right thing and you end up being treated unfairly, irritated, or intentionally abused it's easy to lose it so to speak. 

It's easy to speak your mind and let the other party have it, tell them like it is. What is hard is taking the hard way out, being calm in such a scenario, and not letting your rage get the best of you. So what am I saying? being the bigger person is unbelievably hard. Staying calm when you are being treated unfairly is hard, and not letting your anger get the best out of you is even harder.

So what are you telling us, Oliver, just let people run us over? use and abuse us as we just watch and not say anything? Absolutely not. What I am advocating here is being able to handle yourself, the point being, don't turn into 'them' while trying to justify the wrong. Become the bigger person in the room. By being calm and rising to the challenge tactfully you can even say your piece diligently and clearly trust me, it will be more beneficial to the particular situation, but even more important it will be of significant benefit to you.