What Do You Do When Pushed To The Edge?

20 Responses to “What Do You Do When Pushed To The Edge?”

1. D. says on 12/28/06 at 6:06 pm:
   

   I hold it in. And hold it. And hold it. If I can - I stay away from that person(s); if not, in a last resort, I’ll say NO.
   No, I’m not gonna do this or that. I’ll give no explanation why or I’ll say I’m to busy.
   However, I have all sorts of “make believe arguments” in my head with the person(s) - but, in their presence, I keep my anger in.

2. October27 says on 12/28/06 at 6:33 pm:
   

   I try like crazy to explain why something is unacceptable. I try like crazy to pull them to my side. If this does not work (which is at least 50% of the time) I get up and leave, or ask the other person to, depending on whose territory the dispute is about.

3. g. says on 12/28/06 at 7:16 pm:
   

   when i’m done crying, i take a deep breath, find something to laugh about in it all, and ask myself, “ok, what will make this feel better?” and i do it.

4. Lupa says on 12/28/06 at 8:04 pm:
   

   Magic. *nod*

5. Saboma says on 12/28/06 at 8:59 pm:
   

   I stand my ground then get out of the way when it hits the fan. I’m a firm believer in the law of cause and effect. My job is in keeping my side of the street clean, if you will.

   *Hugs*

6. Beque says on 12/28/06 at 9:12 pm:
   

   Fall over it. But then I float instead of crashing.

7. Strawberry Fields says on 12/28/06 at 9:29 pm:
   

   It depends.

   Also…

   I’m in the middle of completely ‘remaking’ myself. What I might have done in the past is now totally irrelevant.

   What I ~will~ do in the future remains to be seen.

   Whole new me. Whole new set of criteria for making choices.

   All I know is “it depends” will remain.

   I’m a person of always ‘many options’… depending on… the particulars of the situation at hand…

8. lovlylife says on 12/28/06 at 10:54 pm:
   

   I thrive. I used to look for jobs that were very stressful so I could do my best work and be continually challenged. I dont any longer as life can be pretty stressful and I’m not as young as I used to be..lol. Also, I really dont want that kind of stress any longer. But, when it hits,I thrive.

9. tinkerer says on 12/29/06 at 12:47 am:
   

   I run faster and faster and faster, and get less efficient and more scattered even as I do (Mars square Saturn in mutable signs)…and then I suddenly stop and throw a tantrum (Mercury in Leo, gotta communicate the drama of this crisis)…and then crawl, wounded, back into my Cancer 12th house Sun shell to recover.

   The world is just a bully, anyhoo…

   Oh, and odds are I didn’t actually finish what I was being pushed to do, either. Instead it becomes one more of Life’s Little Misfortunate Incidences.

   So HA on the beastie pushing me–got thwarted when I fell apart, didn’t you? And is it me learning a lesson, or the other? heh.

10. Sylvia says on 12/29/06 at 1:46 am:
    

    1- Hysteria
    2-Massive self-pity
    3-A relentless Saturnian talking to
    4- eliminate or deal with person/situation
    5-Feel animated
    6-Feel guilty
    7-Get on with it already

11. silverfoot says on 12/29/06 at 4:39 am:
    

    depends what it is. if it’s important to me, i go into hardcore crisis management, and no matter how fast things run, it’s all graceful slow motion in my head, and i dance that song till it’s done. if it’s something someone is trying to make important to me when it really isn’t, i cope as long as i can, then i just drop under the radar.

    but… he goes magic? *THAT* sounds like a tale…

12. Lyn says on 12/29/06 at 4:58 am:
    

    I go cold and go into analyse mode! (Aquarius Sun)I step back from the emotion and look at it from a higher perspective and keep chipping at it until solved. Then and only then (usually days even weeks after it’s all over) I crumble!! Usually with either a bad Migraine attack or just cry my eyes out! Think that could be my riasing sign of Pisces.

13. kathy says on 12/29/06 at 6:59 am:
    

    I do housework. There was a time in my life when my marriage was crumbling and my husband was drinking that I had the cleanest floors in town. For years afterward, every time I cleaned, my kids woud ask me what I was mad about. I guess the chaotic mess my house gets into sometimes now means I’m healthier - I like that idea!!

14. the other Kat says on 12/29/06 at 7:43 am:
    

    When I’m pushed to the edge is the only time I really shine.

15. Marly says on 12/29/06 at 8:02 am:
    

    (Oh, but you can push me physically, like if you’re my coach or my trainer. That works wonders.)

16. Marly says on 12/29/06 at 8:02 am:
    

    I get like Tinkerer. But if you push me too far emotionally (like by calling me names or, worse, if you corner me), I explode like Little Boy over Nagasaki. My Pluto comes out and I go into “scorched earth” mode. Pushing me brings out my very very worst.

17. Allison says on 12/29/06 at 8:57 am:
    

    I’m with Marley, if someone is pushing me and making me angry, I get all atomic too. But if I’m stressed out and at the edge I just break down and cry. Then I sort it all out afterwards.

18. Daeshii says on 12/29/06 at 11:10 am:
    

    I have a Phoenix complex. I tend, when pushed to the edge, to crash and burn, and once I get things in order, I come back stronger and more beautiful.

19. Meg H says on 12/29/06 at 12:40 pm:
    

    The edge?! I refuse to backdown, get seriously knocked on my butt, fall off a tall cliff, etc. That’s when, feeling broken, I lie & look up at the sky, only to see the avalanche storming down the hill. I rise & make the sprint of my life to… the next edge.

    The human capacity for inner strength… we all can be superheroes, if only for a few moments.

20. kashmiri says on 12/31/06 at 12:24 am:
    

    Magic, Like: I can go apeshit, or I can go big dog/little dog passive, or I can just sniff and trot on. Me.

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