From Irritation To Insight: What A Pet Peeve Reveals About Me

In a marketplace, while I was in a hurry to get the things I needed to buy before it starts raining, I get slowed down by a slow walking lady who isn't old or look sick, it was so annoying because there was no other way to walk past her until we reached an open place. I figured it's a pet peeve.

While on a bus ride, I found this guy looking right into my phone as I was sending texts to my friends, watching statuses and he didn't just look, he tried to talk about something he saw in one of the videos I watched and I was like "What the heck?!" I mean, Bro you have your phone too!

I'm not the kind to easily show how annoyed I am about a situation or a pet peeve of mine but there are moments where I can't hold it in and I figured they are my biggest pet peeve. Slow internet is one for me, you'll find me hissing over and over and there's also talking when your mouth is full.

But the one biggest pet peeve I never liked until my thoughts changed for the better about it was, "Staring too long at people". Before now, I was totally okay with staring for a bit and taking eyes off someone like nothing happened but I was not okay with the eyes that stares too long on me.

At that time, I found those people very annoying and kind of foolish to be eye fixed on someone especially strangers. At one point, I'll give an ugly or a kind of scary face look at them to signal them that they are staring too much. But trust some to still keep the stare after your signal.

I think the main reason that became my pet peeve then was because I was the shy type and I'd prefer to go to places without being seen by anyone but imagine someone like that being looked at for more than few seconds. I could almost feel my blood running hot to see them.

Well, that changed when I try not to take notice of whoever is looking or staring too much and I replaced it with appreciating my looks and who I am. I could say the pet peeve was also as a result of the low amount of self love I give myself. A close friend actually pointed this out to me.

What if people stare more because I look attractive? Or maybe they want to get the style of my wears for a remake? Or maybe they stare longer to admire what they find admirable in my physical appearance? I know this could be quite a self deceit to an extent but trust me, it felt better.

There's really no use getting too annoyed about this particular pet peeve but it was a no joke for me back then. I still notice some long stares today but I don't get as annoyed as before, even annoyance takes a lot from my strength so I'd rather use the strength for something better lol.