Try not to let your emotions dictate your full reaction. Recognize that they exist but don’t bow to them. If you do, you may compound the problem. Pride and ego are camouflaged as protection, but really they will just bring you suffering. Sit with them and let them be, but you don’t have to react. Be a witness to this and watch it happen, beyond your control. Because your reaction and your desire is never enough. Each second, everything changes. Like a wave crashing into the water, it all dissolves into the source itself. Don’t let the drama continue to play out in your mind. It will just build and build unnecessarily, until it’s something that never existed in the first place.