guy's mind

After a random fight with my roommate this afternoon, I got to think about self-reflection.

As I have outlined several times before, I feel betrayed by him, feel made a fool by, and above all, I feel dismissed by.

So what can you do in such a situation? Over time, I have come up with a wide variety of approaches to influence his behavior.

• First of all, you can talk to a person directly. To call a spade a spade – as they say. Did not work.
• You can mirror the person’s behavior, and thereby try to make them realize what they are doing. Did not work.
• You can make sarcastic and ironic remarks in order to allude to something. Did not work.
• You can take things into your own hands. Did not work.
• You can give a twist to the entire situation. Did not work.
• You can tell the person straight to practice self-reflection, and advise them to sit down with themselves in order to think about the entire situation, to imagine how they would feel in someone else’s shoes, how they would act and react. Will this work?

I wonder.