Let's say someone really irritates you. And you really hate how irritating they are. But you then decide, you're not going to yell at them. You want to give them a torrent of a verbal beatdown, but instead, you're going to keep it to yourself. (Assume this someone is your social equal.) When you're not around that person, you yell at a wall or smack your pillow or throw crumpled paper at the ground. You mutter and perhaps shout expletives regarding that person when you're alone, or even with your close friends -- but you just don't say these things to the person directly.
Is it denying your true feelings about something, a regrettable self-censorship, and being dishonest to yourself and/or that person?
Or is it being mature, letting things go because you have bigger fish to fry, and taking the high road?
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