Why Are Some People So Annoying?

The Fr. Mike Schmitz Catholic Podcast

Ascension

Christianity, Religion & Spirituality, Society & Culture

4.9 • 7.1K Ratings

🗓️ 30 July 2020

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Summary

We all have pet peeves. We all get annoyed by things that really don’t matter much, whether it’s someone chewing with their mouth open, or someone whispering the Rosary in an Adoration chapel—which are two things that used to be pet peeves for Fr. Mike. But he learned a better way to deal with annoyances.

Why do we get so annoyed by such petty things? It’s because being annoyed is a choice.

Fr. Mike tells a quick story about prisoners of war in Vietnam. They were put in a really small cell where they were so close together they had to sleep touching each other. The prisoners came to an agreement that if they were annoyed by something another prisoner does, the one who is annoyed is the one at fault. This helped them rise about their situation.

There are four possible choices when you’re annoyed:

I can choose to be annoyed. This is not recommended.
I can actively choose to rise above the annoyance and grow in patience.
I can do something about it and let it move me to positive action.
Instead of saying that person annoys me, I can say that person sanctifies me.

Next time you get annoyed, try numbers two through four.

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0:00.0	Quarantine haircuts need to be a thing, actually quarantine Nagon needs to be a thing, so haircuts can be a thing once again.
0:16.1	Hi my name is Father Mike Schmitz and this is a censure present.
0:18.3	I'm not sure if you're someone who gets easily annoyed.
0:21.3	I know that there was a time in my life when I was like really easily annoyed.
0:26.5	I have number of pet peeves.
0:28.0	One of those pet peeves, my family and some good friends know about this.
0:32.3	I hate hate just like people who chew with their mouth open.
0:35.9	Like that just anyone.
0:37.6	It doesn't matter who you are unless you're a child in which case I'm like,
0:40.8	oh that's kind of cute, whatever.
0:41.9	I'm gotten better at dealing with it.
0:43.3	Another thing that was annoying, I remember this happening all of the time in seminary.
0:48.4	We'd be in the chapel, maybe you've been there where it's like the adoration chapel.
0:50.9	You're kind of close to each other.
0:52.3	It's very, very quiet.
0:53.5	No one is supposed to be making any noise in this place.
0:56.6	They're supposed to be silent in adoration.
0:59.5	And they're like, no but I'm praying the rosary.
1:01.1	So I need to like, I was, I was, I was, I was, I was, I was, I was.
1:04.4	Or even maybe not even worse, but kind of just as bad where all you hear is, right?
1:09.1	You hear that there.
1:10.1	Like dude, you don't have to mouth the words and getting like so interior, violently aggravated.
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