My Point of Reference's Point of Reference

I was thinking of the times I've been given bad advice. When I'm speaking to someone close to me and they come out with a negative comment, I always wonder where they got it. It probably didn't originate in their brain just then. Somebody must have said or done something negative to them at one point that stuck in their head, germinated like an evil seed and waited for me to come along. People tend to feel comfortable enough with me to unleash all their zingers. I may have come with a "doormat" stamp on my head, one that can only be read by mean people. Eventually, I want someone to be angry at, and since it's hard to be angry at the immediate offender, I tend to like to blame whoever made him/her that way. Inevitably, the realization leads to the fact that someone made the maker that way, too. We've gotta get revenge on the first insulting person ever. What made that one insulting, though? There's somebody who was just born bad. A mean, negative, offensive asshole who started it all. Now that son of a bitch shouldn't have been given free will. And who created him? So, since I like to believe in goodness, the discussion ends here. One more unanswered question. Nobody to be angry at, since I can't get to the source.