Say the magic words to the right person and it's no longer your
problem anymore. Monitor the situation on occasion if you're
curious if it worked, but really, it's off your back, not your
problem, you're free to carry on with your life.
AKA: SUBSTITUTE, PROXY, REPLACEMENT YOU,
It may make you feel strong because you are not alone and have
someone powerful to take your place completely.
Drawbacks: You might be considered a tattletale. If this is
important to you to NOT be a tattletale, then this method is a
FAIL for you. It doesn't fit you, doesn't suit your needs at
all.
It also requires more than just you by yourself. You need an
authority figure (someone ABOVE you and your enemies). Teacher,
parent, police, lawyer, someone smarter than you, someone
stronger than you (if you want them to fight).
You can also find someone who is just like you to replace you.
it may make you feel powerless and weak because you couldn't
handle it by yourself, If this is important to you, consider it
a FAIL.
Effort required:
1) Find the right KIND of person to tell.
2) Find the right person to tell
3) Figure out the right words to say to make it happen
4) See if it works the way you want to, if not REPEAT step a),
perhaps changing either the PERSON or KIND OF PERSON or WORDS
you use. Or consider it a FAIL:
FAIL
b) DUPLICATES: YOU + ANOTHER:
Get someone to handle the problem WITH you. The ''at least I'm
not alone in this'' answer. Share the effort, share the victory,
share the failure. The ''army'' of ''You and What army?''
c) Don't care.
ALONE
I don't like you, love you, or hate you. I just don't care about
you. Do whatever you want to me, say whatever you want to me. It
doesn't affect me in any way at all. You're not worth my time.
But I'll play along and pretend. If you want to talk, I'll talk.
If you want to yell, I'll yell. If you want to fight, I'll
fight. But I really don't care if I win or lose. I don't care of
you win or lose. I don't care if I get hurt because I'll heal. I
don't care if you say mean things about me or to me, because
your words mean nothing to me. You don't affect ME in any way at
all. Want to start a rumor that I eat pancakes with my cat while
standing on a toilet? Go ahead. Meaningless. Trying to get
everybody to believe that I'm someone who can't be trusted?
Doesn't matter. Did you succeed in getting people to think bad
or wrong things about me? It's ok - if they believe those things
about me it doesn't matter. Are you telling people my secrets
that are true? It's ok. *''If that's what you want to believe''*
is all I'll say. Let them figure it out. Not worth MY energy or
time to figure it out for them.
This is the most powerful method that you can do by yourself,
where you need nobody else.
Let them think or do what they want. They're not important
enough for you to care.
This is of the Doesn't Apply, Not Applicable, Your Argument is
Invalid variety. In short, ''Enemy? What enemy? I don't have any
enemies. What is an enemy?''
FAIL
d) FLOW: try to make them your friend
ALONE.
Co-operation, find something in common, act as if you want to be
their friend, find things to do together. Say I'm
sorry/Please/Thank You.
*This is how little kids solve it.* But, that solution can be
very hard when you've already decided they're not worth that
kind of effort and don't want to do it / lazy / don't care /
hate them too much. This answer can take a lot of work and
dedication.
IMPLICIT, INTERNAL, NATURAL, AUTOMATIC, FROM THE IN TO THE OUT.
UNCONSCIOUS, HABIT, FAST
FAIL
e) WRITE IT DOWN: Make a DEAL with them.
ALONE
Find out something they need that you can provide.
''If I do this for you, can you be my friend/just leave me
alone''
Much easier to do. If it works, it's a Verbal Contract. It's a
just like a written CONTRACT that you sign. And yes, you can
have it in writing too.
EXPLICIT, EXTERNAL, FROM THE OUT TO THE IN TO THE OUT,
CONSCIOUS, SLOW
FAIL
f) AVOID. Neutral. No Talking Needed. ALONE.
This is a lot like a) but with nobody to substitute for you.
This takes a lot of PHYSICAL creativity. Ducking around corners,
hiding, scheduling your time so you DON'T meet up with them.
More permanent avoiding involves moving to a different place
completely, making the POTENTIAL for meeting up with the enemy
again LESS LIKELY.
FAIL
g) Fight. My enemy is my best friend, in reverse.
ALONE
Fend for yourself, with yourself, by yourself.
You have a lot of ways to fight. You can fight with your mind by
thinking creatively how to win, you can use your mouth by
verbally fighting, you can fight with your fists or feet or
whole body or use tools or weapons.
Stand tall and proud and give it all you got if you choose the
final option.
If keeping an enemy your enemy is important to you, then they
deserve NOTHING but the BEST FROM YOU. Fight like you mean it.
Your enemy is your best friend, but in reverse.
I personally *prefer* NOT breaking any LAWS or doing things that
you feel are WRONG. *HOWEVER*
That's my opinion. *Breaking laws and doing what's wrong is
something that people do every single day.* It's just as valid
of a way to live your life as any. Mom and dad and teacher and
police and court and religion and neighbors and family and
friends may disagree with me saying that.. but it's true. Of
course you *can* do it.
If you couldn't do it, nobody would be doing it.
I can't breath in the middle of the Sun, but I can break a law.
I just *choose* not to.
I *do choose* to do _what's wrong_ sometimes.
Choosing right and wrong and good and evil and following laws or
not is all CHOICE.
If you choose this option, you are likely to have to repeat it.
Over and over and over again, in many different ways. Or perhaps
the same way over and over again.
With f) and g) you are likely to repeat them over and over until
your situation changes.
WRITTEN BY KENNETH UDUT 7/1/2013
I simply applied the theory I'm working on, but replaced those
words with words that seem to have something do with enemies or
bullying. I have no idea if this is good advice but I hope it
helps.
Inspired by the fact that my original Enemy answer was FAR FROM
COMPLETE but good. But main inspiration to actually TAKE the
time to do it? @114989390721567982209
