Do you really think you're always right?

Depending on how you want to look at the world, you're wrong a lot. If you're a nihilist than you're not really wrong your subconscious is just smarter than you. If you're in politics you're only wrong when everyone else knows your wrong. If you're a human being, you're wrong a lot more than you know and more than you'd probably like to admit.

"So what? Everyone's wrong sometimes."


Correct! Now don't diminish the fact that you're wrong by adding yourself to a larger group of people and admitting that that group to which you belong is sometimes wrong. You as an individual are wrong about some things. I don't know what they are, and frankly I don't care. The point of this exercise is to remind you that you really aren't any better than anyone else. I'm also not better than anyone else. Do you know what that makes us?

If you answered anything other than "equals" then you're wrong. Again. Unless it was something else that was viable in which case tell me and then I'll be wrong. Ironic, huh?

As an individual who grew up in an age where we wage war on literally every darn thing ever (I know some of the previous linked wars started before my generation, but we're still fighting them I guess), the two political parties are at eachother's throats and wouldn't hesitate to slit them, everything you say should be politically correct, and enthusiasts of one sports team beat up enthusiasts of other sports teams, destroy public and private property, set things on fire, and spend more time and money being a fan than being a friend or a family member, it's important to remember that the best way to help someone understand your point of view is NOT to beat it into their skulls.

The reason I can't stress enough how incorrect we are sometimes is because when you live under the false pretense that you're always right you forfeit the ability to reasonably comprehend a view-point that conflicts with your own. That's why media pundits are so adamant; if they admitted they were fallible, they couldn't reasonably bash the "enemy" pundits who preach the opposing views to a proverbial pulp that feeds the masses like heroin to an addict. You've incarcerated your mind in your own self-righteousness.

So, next time you get into an argument with someone about anything, think twice about raising your voice, because you're probably raising your voice to drown out theirs. Think three times about pointing fingers, because every time you point a finger at someone else you point three more back at yourself. Think EXPONENTIALLY MORE TIMES before calling someone something derogatory, because there's absolutely no excuse for that ever in any situation.

Calmly having a discussion wont make you better than someone having a heated argument, but it just might make you a more decent human being that can contribute to society and maintain healthy relationships with the people around you. It's a lesson that I personally have had to learn the hard way, that a lack of self-control is one of the best ways to push people away from yourself. So, take it from me, a guy who's as equally human as the rest of us. Your decisions have consequences, and bad decisions have bad consequences.

"How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it." - Marcus Aurelius.