Questions

A colleague at work has revealed to other

workers personal information about you that
you confided in him and him alone. You are
steaming as you pass a group of colleagues
commenting on your current relationships’
problems.

What are some choices you have for reacting

to this?

What would you do first?

 Group Answer
First, we will try to relate it to one of the principles in the Principles of Emotions and
Emotional Messages, namely Emotions have consequences. Emotions and emotional
expressions, like any message, has consequences. When we express our emotions, we
always have a consequence that will follow us. This consequence, in our opinion, should
be the subject of our thinking. Several times, there have been instances of a person
expressing his emotions directly by scolding his friend or venting his emotions directly to
his friend in similar cases. As a consequence, friendships are destroyed, and there is a
feeling of resentment between us and that person. So, we must be careful and be able to
control the consequences that will occur in the future. If that happened to us, we are not
someone who would take the risk. We will obviously weigh the consequences carefully
and will choose to express our emotions well and talk to the friendwe have trusted. We
will talk to him and question why he spreads stories about our privacy. For sure in the
future, We will still be friends with him but we will be much more careful when talking or
telling stories to him.