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Line 1: − Previously, I wrote the essay [[Essay: Cut toxic people out of your life and replace them with edifying achievers who inspire you|Cut toxic people out of your life and replace them with edifying achievers who inspire you]]. This is a sequel to that essay. − == Cutting off a gangrenous limb in your life can be quite freeing and enable you to do much more == − [[File:Medical kit cut off limbs with a gangrene infection.jpg|thumbnail|300px|right|Medical kit used to cut of limbs with a gangrene infection.]] − In my essay [[Essay: Don't pine for a problem-free life or for "problem child" people to be gone from your life|Don't pine for a problem-free life or for "problem child" people to be gone from your life]] I wrote about how irritations, problems and "problem child" people can develop character in a person. − − Recently, I assertively let another person know that I would put up with any toxic behavior and since then that person has been fine to deal with. Sometimes you have reasonable people in your life who are under a lot of pressure in their lives and lash out at people who are unrelated to problems they are experiencing in life or they have subject matters that set them off or are best avoided in terms of discussion (Or just delayed being talked about. As wise King [[Solomon]] wrote, "For everything there is a season, and a time for every matter under heaven." - Ecclesiastes 3:1). − − In addition, I completely removed my communication with a very toxic person in my life. In church parlance, you could say that I excommunicated them from my life after several warnings (Matthew 18:15–18). This has been tremendously freeing. No more reading complete foolishness. No more hearing nonsensical, bellicose dribble. − − In the classic 1957 war movie ''The Bridge on the River Kwai'', Major Clipton comments on the irrational behavior of the British officer Colonel Nicholson with the words [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=898nvuDPLCc&t=419s "Madness. Madness"].<ref>[http://www.kieransomers.com/blog/madness-madness-60-years-of-the-bridge-on-the-river-kwai/ ‘MADNESS! MADNESS!’ – 60 YEARS OF THE BRIDGE ON THE RIVER KWAI]</ref><ref>[https://www.britannica.com/topic/The-Bridge-on-the-River-Kwai-film-by-Lean The Bridge on the River Kwai], Britannica</ref> − − − '''<big>This essay will be finished at a later time</big>''' − − ==References== − {{reflist}} − − [[Category:Essays]]
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