It's been a while since I used the statement "correct me if I'm wrong". I feel so arrogant for saying this but I don't like being corrected now! True, everyone makes mistakes but for now, I don't want to be corrected. But in spite the idea of hating being corrected, I still accept my mistakes. I'm an open-minded person for real.
Why am I making a big deal out of this? It's because the feeling sucks. It makes me burst out in anger. Yet also drown in embarrassment though it only applies when I know that I truly made mistake. If I know that I don't have a mistake but someone still corrects me, TO HELL WITH HIM! Sometimes I even get to the point of wanting him dead or imagining the worst out of him.
I have also been in many instances that people tend to believe what they think is ALWAYS right and after a few moments, they ended up realizing what they said or did was wrong and eventually regret. I get totally pissed off with them. That's the result of not listening to other's opinion, BE INNOVATIVE ENOUGH TO LIVE REALITY FOLKS!
I do have someone who always pisses me off. I don't hate him/her but he's/she's totally pathetic! I hate giving him/her ideas or warning since there's no use. So now, when we're together, I don't talk to much about my own point of view since she/he would want his/her idea to be considered ALWAYS. Geez..! And what usually happens, he/she always proves him/herself wrong. Then me? ahemm.. HEAD UP! Then I would think, "You deserve that." I mean, for how many months we've been together, that might have already reached years, couldn't he/she learned his/her lessons?!?! He/she's too stubborn and I want to punch him/her hard to realize that he/she's making a fool of him/herself already.
For there are hundred kinds of people one has encountered or will be encountering, being pissed off when corrected is normal. Or being pissed off for ignoring your ideas, warning or correction is..uhmm.. also normal.
I have one thing to say about correcting others, can you do it like it is what you think is correct but don't ever emphasize that what the person thinks is totally wrong. They're not the same. Get my point? If the person you're talking to is too humble or naive to be taking what you've said, it must be fine; but if not, I tell you, the person wants you dead on that moment already.
I concur. Amen to that.
ReplyDeleteIt's the worst when someone insists on being correct when it comes to a specific matter, only to be proven completely wrong in the end. And excuse my language, but if they don't have the balls to admit that they're wrong, then they shouldn't have been insisting on their view so adamantly.
I feel your pain, sister.