It's not easy being the bigger person in a dispute.
When a person comes at you aggressively, it's hard not to be defensive, throwing up your arms like armor and retaliating with as much venom in your voice as your aggressor. It takes a really zen personality to be rational in that kind of situation, like Dali Lama levels of zen. This avid gardener displayed her inner peace when the cuckoo, rabblerousing Karen next door, started getting crazy over a planted garden. The garden was on the gardener's property line, but this entitled neighbor decided that she would escalate her dismay with the plant growth, exuding an entitled sense of fury that would normally be matched on the other side of the fence…
… But not with this gardener woman. She was too chill to start a battle with her Karenish neighbor, so she decided to take the high road, becoming a wiser, more evolved person than most. Keep scrolling to read the updated story of compromise that left both parties satisfied—at least until those holly bushes grow to block their views of each other.
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