Whomping Willow

Surely in some point of your life, you must have met someone who is rude, bitter and has a stinging nature, not only with you but with everyone in general. The person, who for any reason involved, takes a negative meaning for everything and always has a mouthful of hurtful things to throw at the person talking to him. And how about if such person is someone who is either a close relative or a person with whom you have a frequent dealing. It certainly is not a very pleasant thing and not something you would want to deal with. You very well can turn things around with such person with a tip I’m going to tell you.

And my solution is Whomping Willow. Whomping Willow is a magical tree in Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets and Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, a tree with just a few leaves on it, with scary, claw-like branches everywhere. This tree looks like a normal tree but when it’s touched or someone approaches it, it thrashes wildly, flailing its branches madly and violently to hit the one who has come in contact with it. It ‘does’ sound like the kind of person I mentioned above, doesn’t it? Now the Whomping Willow can be calmed and immobilized by pressing a certain knot at the base of the Willow and it can then be approached. 

So here is when my solution can be explained. See, Whomping Willow is very similar to that rude, stinging person. Hating him for what he does might not be the solution every time. Just like the Whomping willow, you have to find a soft corner of that person and then he would be like a normal like anyone else you could deal with easily. Harry Potter couldn’t pass and get close to Whomping Willow but until he found out how to immobilize it. Fighting the branches could only make things worse, similarly, fighting and arguing can do nothing but infuriate that person, and you despising him even more. 

Another thing, no human being is bad. It is the situations and circumstances or the nature which makes him bitter but there is a heart full of feelings in every chest. Therefore, we should never make a firm judgment about anyone as being a bad person. It wouldn’t be easy and off course would require vigilance, patience and a little understanding of human psychology to find that soft corner but it will be there all right and for sure, again like the Whomping Willow, whose secret to pacify it is not known to all but to those who tried to find it. 

What got me thinking about writing this blog was that I, myself, know such a bratty person who scolds and says hurtful things to me even when I’m nice with that person. And one day, talking and bearing with that person, I found something with which I was actually able to get that person in to talking nicely with me and our conversation went on and on, so much that in the end we had to say “nice talking”, a phrase you only use with the person you had nice time talking to and trust me, it was used sincerely and not just in formality. And I believe it can be used with any such person. 

So if you come across such person and want to deal with him pleasantly, find a soft corner of his, keeping Whomping Willow in mind.