So, we have a few people who think they are
so self-righteous so they tend to rub it in on everybody’s faces. They think
they are right and the world got to bow down to their feet just because they
think they know more and they are right. They think the way they do things and
they way they think are the correct way that they want to delve into other
people’s business and imply what they believe might be true in other people’s
lives. And these people don’t take criticism too kindly. In fact the only
people that should be doing the criticizing is them; the self-righteous people.
But if other people turn the table around and start to give them a taste of
their own medicine, they flipped out and started to lose their shit.
The thing is, all of us have our own
opinion and the way we think is different and if it is the same, it has to be a
communist country. We are different but that does not mean we have to instil
our differences into each other’s lives. What good would be to be at each other’s
throats for things that are so immature to be fought about in the first place?
I value people’s differences. In fact if
you tell me that, “Hey, don’t be friends with him. He’s an ugly motherfucker
with a bad case of leper”, I would still have to look for myself and be friends
with that ugly motherfucker without having a second opinion about him. By the
way, the word motherfucker has been thrown around a lot, Oedipus must be proud!
Well, getting back to the topic. I admit
sometimes criticism, baseless criticism is stupid and just plain abusive. For instance,
if your mom asked you for your opinion on a dress she was trying, you should
not say, “Mom, your face is ugly that not even a ten thousand dollar dress
could cure that.” That is just plain stupid and only imbeciles would do that. Structural
criticism, on the other hand, requires tact. Tact which is a fact that not many
people have or even if they have it, it would require pragmatic competence to
use it well.
Now, with the advent of social networking
where everybody has an opinion, it is getting incredibly hard to be courteous. Everybody
could say something and someone, somewhere would take it the wrong way even
though that was not the intended meaning of the person responsible of posting
or tweeting the status in the first place. Or that person could have been
aiming at someone or something but didn’t mention the name of that person or
that place. So, when people accuse this person of slandering that someone or
something, he or she can just brush off the accusation, saying that he or she
did not claim to whom or what the comment or tweet was intended to. So clever,
eh?
The point is, I think we should be responsible
for what we said, posted, commented, tweeted, reposted or whatever technical term
associated with social networkings. I knew this and learned this the hard way
when some of my blog post created a stir back in college that I had to shut my
previous blog. I also learned it the hard way when one of my course mates
defamed me in his blog. Nobody liked it if they are mentioned in a bad way on
the internet. Because that shit stays on. Even if you delete it, it still could
be retrieved. That’s why before I want to write the shit out of something, I wait
it out for a couple of days. If it still lingers on my mind, that means it is
worth mentioning about. If I have forgotten about it within that couple of
days, then good riddance.
In life, we meet people that just annoy us
for no reason. There are things that don’t sit well with us. But that does not
give you an excuse to bitch about it and rant about it so that the whole world
could see how moral conscious you are about these ‘issues’. Don’t pretend that
you were holier than thou all the goddamn time. That shit gets cold after a
while.
The bottom line is, what seems good to you
might not be good to others. Stop shoving things down people’s throats. Just agree
to disagree and accept people for they are.
