Thursday, February 16, 2006

Prince: Should we always Prove Someone's wrong..

Living under a different kind of world / life, requires a different path / direction. What you have chosen to be, keep it that way, but do not forget that sometimes flexibility is important to keep a life on-going.

He was glad that one of his friends has eventually chosen to sacrifice something for another, of course it was in good cause, and he truly hopes that his friend will earn himself neither just pride nor ego, but a future achievement that everyone proud of.

No one can deny that sometimes you need to do certain thing in life which you may not want to do, however, as long as it is legally and morally acceptable under a person belief, of course, different people has a different degree of acceptance. A person can embrace a different belief, and choose their own path toward what they believe as dream life, somehow, leading a life differently from other is what everyone dream is; and of course, do not blame anyone but yourself who has chosen that path.

Very often, we tend to blame our choice on others, for what we have become eventually, and for what we have done on our own decision; and this is not acceptable among your friends. You may mingle around with anyone of your friend, but not necessary becoming one of them, however, if doing what your friend does, is nevertheless, do not breach your bottom-line, and that you have decided to do it, then you should not blame your choice on your friends.

At the end of the day, you are still who you are, and who you want to be, neither force nor influence pushing you toward your choice, but you as yourself have chosen the path. Meanwhile, he has also mention earlier, no one should earn himself an achievement purely drives by the desire to prove someone’s wrong merely to regain his ego or pride, the drive should be coming from the person very own self initiative.

If in life, you need someone to push you constantly for achievement, then you are not able to stand on your own foot, but to constantly relying on other’s subjective-reinforcement which may sometimes lead you no where in life.

He had a friend who pursues Art Degree; he did very well in his major in computer animation; two year passed-by, left with his final year to gain his degree. One day, his housemate who was majoring in sketching & comic drawing, drew a cartoon, and bragged in front of his friend.

This housemate asked if his friend can draw the cartoon better than him, unfortunately, his friend, who major in computer animation, was not good in drawing, and can’t draw as good as his housemate.

His friend felt frustrated, and upon his ego being hurt, he gave up his major and reenrols in Sketching, which he has to do it one more year all over again. At the end he learned how to draw, and draw better than his housemate, he even won himself an award.

There is nothing as right or wrong, but to prove only he can do anything better than any other of his friend, he gave up one year just to prove his friend wrong; regaining his ego, building his self-confident in other field which he may not has interest at all.

For others, they may consider it a silly move, for some people, they consider it a change of life. For prince, he considers it a waste of time to always prove someone wrong on frivolous matters.

What do you think life can be if you tend to meet many unscrupulous human-being who keep on trampling, and picking on your weakness, and neglecting your strength? Shall you prove them wrong by doing what they are good at? Will it distract your attention and focus in what you are currently doing?

To prove people wrong naturally, to certain degree can help a person to do better in life, but over competitive will lead you into a confine environment, where you being manipulated instead of manipulating the games. :-)

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