We all like to project an affable easy-going air. We instinctively want others to think well of us when they first meet us. Well, I say that we all do this but, of course, one or two of us are deliberately brusque. We try hard to emanate an off-putting air, so that nobody discovers just how soft, gentle and loveable we are below the surface. The closer you now get to someone, the more you can see a difference between their friendly smile and their secret back story of a seething bad attitude. Don't react! Just try to understand.It may be time to look at some of your boundaries and barriers. You have drawn various lines in the sand saying, 'Past this point I will not go.' Whilst almost all of those distinctions and delineations are wise, one or two may contain an element of 'emotional inflation'. Might the importance of a particular arrangement have been blown up just a little too far out of proportion? And might the most amazing progress prove possible if only you were willing to rethink what had previously started to seem like an issue beyond all question? 
When we discussed someone else's rigid attitude and the various reasons why they might be resisting a constructive plan or idea. But you must also look at your own reluctance to pursue a particular path and at the possibility, too, that you are allowing someone else's attitude to justify and strengthen your own. Though you are currently experiencing quite a strong urge to stick with the apparent safety of a tried and tested tradition, it is becoming ever more clear that you could benefit enormously from a little more fluidity.You have the most uncanny insight. It is as if your life is a plane and in the cockpit there is a state-of-the-art radar system. Little escapes your attention. Although, there may be occasions when you take your eye off the thermometer or perhaps refuse to believe what the control panel is telling you. So you had best check for both of these possibilities today. But if you've got a pretty strong inkling about someone or something now, you owe it to yourself to explore this gently but persistently.
Why do some people waste their time disagreeing with you? Can't they just recognise how right you are? Wouldn't it be better for you, for them - and, indeed, for the comfort of many more individuals - if they were just to accept the inevitable, acknowledge the obvious and go along with what you have been saying all the time? Well, of course, that would be helpful but it isn't going to happen. And it most especially isn't going to happen if you adopt an adversarial attitude now. Offer an olive branch. It may yet attract a dove.Even those amongst us with a reputation for being brusque, have a tendency, at times, to be overly polite. We worry too much about what others will think of our attitudes or opinions. We play out a kind of political chess game in our minds, 'If I say this, then they say that, then I will have to respond like this and before we know it, we will have stalemate.' Whilst it may be better to perform such calculations consciously, than just to allow them to happen without any thought, it is also sometimes possible to be too cautious.