How to Deal with RESENTMENT in a Better Way?

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I chose the word RESENTMENT because I am hurt on the inside. When I watched my daddy die right before my eyes, a month after I started my senior year, it hurt me badly. I had problems trying to figure out why and how could that have happened to me or anyone else. I don’t like showing how I feel, so my family started to worry about me. How can I deal with RESENTMENT in a better way?

The Oxford English Dictionary defines RESENTMENT as “a sense of grievance, injury, or insult received or perceived.” It can also be “(a feeling of) ill will, bitterness, or anger against a person or thing.” RESENTMENT often happens when a person loses trust in another person because of an injury or insult by one of the two. An argument between two people can result in RESENTMENT. Say for instance, if Billy Bob and Joe Turner had an argument, and Joe Turner sees his big brother Eddie Turner conversing with Billy Bob. Knowing that Eddie knew about the argument between Billy Bob and Joe Turner, Joe was very hurt. A person who has been hurt by a person has trust issues and feels that they have no way of forgiving the other person right away. RESENTMENT lasts a long time.

According to the Merriam-Webster’s Intermediate Thesaurus, RESENTMENT has many synonyms. “Grudge” and “envy” are two similar synonyms that have similar meanings to RESENTMENT. Grudge can be defined as “having hard feelings toward someone and not being able to forgive them.” For instance, if a man steals another man’s wife and can’t let that feeling of hurt go away, it is a grudge. Envy can be defined as “a strong need to have something that belongs to another person.” Looking at the example of grudge, envy is inferred when the man intensely desires the other man’s wife. Out of the two s...

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