How people treat you is their karma; how you react is yours." - Wayne Dyer

I found this quote on a friends' facebook and loved it because I can relate to it. I recently had a job situation where I was put in a rather akward position. I was told I was lead teaching and the other gal in the classroom was also told she was the lead teacher so we both kind of butted heads as we had different ideas as to what the other person was to be doing in the classroom. Anyways, after a long time of that battle I decided I had had enough. I decided to step down as teacher and remove myself from a situation that I felt wasn't going anywhere good. However, during my time in the classroom (butting heads) I remember a lil girl in the classroom that had transition issues and would refuse to move away from the door and stand there crying because she wanted her mom, her binky and her blanket. I would go to her and speak to her in a calm voice giving her two choices. She could come into the classroom on her own will or I would help her. The other teacher yelled at me infront of the child and anyone else that was in earshot could hear. She told me my ideas were terrible and that WE would not be doing that anymore. I wanted to shout back at her I wanted to smack her accross the face and say listen bitch I know what I am doing here. But, instead I sat next to that child who had calmed herself down by this time (probably to stop and listen to me get yelled at) and went about her day as if she hadn't melted down (so my idea DID work). I said and did nothing. I felt very small at that moment. I felt hurt. Someone (who mind you has NO degree in any sort of childhood feild) was telling me my ideas were stupid. I wanted to slap her in the face with my Master's degree and say oh ya! ? But, like the quote says...."How people treat you is their karma, how you react is yours." I feel as if I did the right thing by doing nothing, saying nothing, and allowing her to sink into her own karma.