I never really understood arrogance and why people cling to it so desperately in their personalities.
It depends, arrogance to one person can easily be confidence to another and I find the terms are often used to put a positive or negative spin on the exact same thing. It comes down to specific situations/people and how those situations/people are being viewed by others.
Leon! Noooooo!
Think about the Gundams!
Think about the thread!
Think about me!
Ok, don't think about me, that's creepy.
Don't subject yourself to the torture!
What Gundams? The thread's been fine without me! Just a little creepy. What torture? D:
I never really understood arrogance and why people cling to it so desperately in their personalities.
It depends, arrogance to one person can easily be confidence to another and I find the terms are often used to put a positive or negative spin on the exact same thing. It comes down to specific situations/people and how those situations/people are being viewed by others.
I can agree, everything is perceived differently by everyone. But my entire muse was about the negativity, of being cocky, of being rude, of being... Well, negative in personality and presentation. Of treating others with inferiority. Even if you're right, there's a difference between criticism and insult. I commonly think arrogance comes with insult, not constructive criticism.
I found a good take on it, I think, that does seem to go hand in hand with others opinions here:
"Self confidence is important but without compassion and humility, it's just arrogance."
Leon! Noooooo!
Think about the Gundams!
Think about the thread!
Think about me!
Ok, don't think about me, that's creepy.
Don't subject yourself to the torture!
What Gundams? The thread's been fine without me! Just a little creepy. What torture? D:
The ones who need you.
The thread is not fine without you.
The fact you only say it's "a little creepy" scares me and I now question many things.
Oh Uri, lol. I got an email for a job today. The place was called "TruGreen". I opened it and laughed pretty hard. "JOIN OUR GROWING TEAM OF LAWN CARE PROS"... gotta be the last name!
Oh Uri, lol. I got an email for a job today. The place was called "TruGreen". I opened it and laughed pretty hard. "JOIN OUR GROWING TEAM OF LAWN CARE PROS"... gotta be the last name!
Don't seem to work for me. Every LEO puts me down as "White Caucasian (non-hispanic)" n I'm like OK cool but....really????
The ones who need you.
The thread is not fine without you.
The fact you only say it's "a little creepy" scares me and I now question many things.
The torture that is any Korean based MMO!
So, none? Prove it! Like what? Eh, I like the game; it's a little grindy, but still not as bad as the likes of XI. Besides, it's either that or I go back to Dragonball Online, and while I like that game, too, it's almost painful having to go through it without being able to understand the story to any of the quests. ._.;
people tend to project their feelings onto others. one person's self-confidence can easily taken as an insult to a persons own confidence or lack thereof.
Arrogance is easy to avoid I think but people confuse confidence with arrogance a lot. Like our society today doesn't distinguish between them enough
Personally I can see I difference I just don't care. I figure I'll worry about being me and if it comes off as too arrogant then that's too bad. I would sooner die than change who I am. Though that's totally imo.
i know that i can come off as arrogant sometimes. it's definitely not the reason i'm single though. in general i'm pretty cocky, but i'm definitely harder on myself than anyone else could ever be.
I guess I personally just have gone through many experiences where I've not only treated others but been treated with arrogance, as well as other negative personality traits and I've come to find I don't like that characteristic in others and so I should not like it for myself.
Of course even I let my emotions get the best of me many a times still, but I don't think I'll ever find it right for me to ever, EVER justify those traits and just accept it for "who I am," when I can CHOOSE who I get to be (even as it's a constant reminder, having to practice, and reprimand myself for doing as I would not wish others to do.) And I'd rather be respectful, modest, etc. So I'll chastise myself for situations that I've reacted otherwise in. :/
Arrogance is easy to avoid I think but people confuse confidence with arrogance a lot. Like our society today doesn't distinguish between them enough
Personally I can see I difference I just don't care. I figure I'll worry about being me and if it comes off as too arrogant then that's too bad. I would sooner die than change who I am. Though that's totally imo.
i think arrogance more often than not is just a misunderstanding or clash of world views. i think everyone is arrogant at some point. the trick it to try to be more aware of your own faults than the faults of others. calling someone arrogant is a 'pot kettle black' thing in that, who are you to judge anyone else?
This is a thread that I found on another website I post at. It can be really really interesting. I thought it deserved a place here.
Post your random thoughts for the day here, or anything else that intrigues you.
For starters, is it possible to give constructive critism to someone who doesn't have a neck? I totally just walked by a girl who didn't. Someone isn't getting a necklace for Valentines day!
And who decided black and white can't be colors? I want to say a racist. I really do.