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Motivational Monday: Passive-Aggressive Change

Monday, August 29, 2016

Motivational Monday,
a new week begins on the last Monday in August 2016,
in two day a new month will begin on Thankful Thursday.

The "Blogging Circle of Friends "  prompt for Day 1384
Something had changed because he/she could feel a subtle difference when he/she walked into the room. What had changed?

I know something has changed, but I just can't put my finger on the change. It's that electric feeling in the air when thunder and lightning are present or predicted. Perhaps I feel a difference in the resonance of the planet or humanity. Something has changed for the better. My soul feels a difference in the vibration of my soul. Whatever it is, I feel different. I won't say more joyous or happy because it is a different feeling, a different emotion. I feel the approach of something new, something that will bring joy for some and sadness for others, but this is the way of change. Some people embrace it with gusto while others dig fallout shelters to hide in. What does this change mean to humanity and to myself? Deep in my soul I feel it will bring unity and harmony, but not before the human race is tested in the fires of change.

The "Blog City ~ Every Blogger's Paradise"  prompt for Day 904
How would you create a passive-aggressive character in your stories? What, in your opinion, makes people passive-aggressive?

According to 8 Signs You’re Being Passive-Aggressive1 by Natasha Burton on the Daily Worth2 website a passive-aggressive person reacts in one or more of these eight ways. If I were placing a character with this problem in a story I would have him/her display several of this actions. The passive-aggressive character would (1) ask "threat-based questions", (2) "make wistful statements", (3) give "backhanded compliments", (4) either ignore another character or "say nothing", (5) procrastinate, (6) leave or push another character out of the group or conversation, (7) sabotage another character, and (8) keep score by leaving the other character out because that character missed an important even in the life of the person keeping score.

Footnotes
1  https://www.dailyworth.com/posts/3462-signs-you-re-being-passive-aggressive
2  https://www.dailyworth.com/