well, guess this is one of my short list blogs when on to check out when possible but this is a goooood post and you sir made a wise choice imho as I had something very similar happen and in spite of the usual b.s. that makes you want to both facepalm and eyeroll I wind up just going high when others go low... being nice doesn't cost a thing.
I seriously feel you on some of this but I don't do the Harry Potter stuff and won't HOWEVER if I got a superpower to do something it would be for people to just be nicer to others and not creepy.
It's sooooo effing easy to stay off the straight and narrow but there's a nice and easier way to be and having learned (repeatedly unfortunately), the whole "Don't be a twatwaffle method is doing me well." @didiee right up there gets the whole hurt people hurt people but yeah mang, sometimes it's best just to allow others a prayer slot in my prayer list because life is short and I have f*cking long Covid on top of whatever other inflammation crap and chronic other crap is going on at any given point.
Cheers!
axey and also am learning to let that shit go (now only to get a bidet and flush 3 times to waste water, joking) sorry for the rant, it happens much like aforementioned sh1t!