Monday, January 21, 2008 . 12:12 AM
Motives & Actions
Seriously, what is it with some people and their incessant need to prove that they're better than me at everything? Or to prove that they're better than everyone at everything?
Is it so WRONG to be an authority at something? Huh? It's like if I'm supposedly better at them at something they watch like a hawk to see if I slip up and then point out my mistake so gleefully. What are you trying to achieve then? To embarrass me? Make me look bad?
Then when someone asks me to help them do something, these people behave that they will be chosen before I do if the person had thought of them and considered them at first. Like hell! Since you believe you're so freaking good at it, go ahead and DO it then. Then I don't have to do anything. When I volunteered for it, it was for interest's sake. I don't do stuff to prove that I'm better than other people or to show off that I know something.
It all boils down to the quote I mentioned in an earlier post: "I learned then that practically no one in the world is entirely bad or entirely good, and that motives are often more important than actions." So what's your damn motive? Am I competing with you for something? Do you feel THREATENED by me? It's sad but it's true. Motives govern actions, and no one person is inherently good or bad. You'd like to think that people do things because they want to, or because it's good. But most of the time (nearly ALL of the time, in fact), they have an ulterior motive. Even I'm not free of it, but at least I realize it. The point is, this has become human nature, and that's just damn freaking sad.
Okay, I give up, OK? You're better than me at every single thing I try to do. Better at singing, acting, dancing, photography, studies, looks, intelligence, fitness. Better at being sociable, at getting girls' attention, at any other thing that exists on this planet Earth.
Happy now? I've conceded. I admit defeat. You're the winner. Bask in all your glory.
"I learned then that practically no one in the world is entirely bad or entirely good, and that motives are often more important than actions." - Eleanor Roosevelt
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