02/10/2024
How do you feel when someone calls you a fool?
I used to think that being a fool or being called one is actually that bad up until I realized how foolish I was many years ago.
To be a fool truly means being comfortable with ignorance, believing you know what you are doing and eventually depriving yourself the opportunity to learn.
It is not completely out of place to state that a Professor in Neurosciences is a novice in Accountancy but would be readily confirmed to be a fool when he does not acknowledge so and not humbling himself enough to learn from the Accountant.
In behavioural environments, I trained myself through observations and instructions to the extent of accepting whoever crosses my path to be as trained and discipline as I strongly believe I am.
How wrong was I for an appreciable length of time along my growing up days, when I managed to riggle out of trouble each time because I trusted that my associates value me and watch my back as I did for them.
Reciprocity in concrete terms would never apply here strictly because too many people in and around your life are just there for the benefits accruing to them therein or therefrom.
Whereas, a relationship is supposed to be beneficial to the parties in it, some persons practically get entitled to believing that your relationship with them is purely and only about them.
Such associates have traits of atomic individualism and I-alone-ism. They show high degree of selfishness which is finally expressed without looking back, at the point you intentionally deprive them the opportunity to rip you off.
I truly accepted how much of a fool I could have been believing that I am in charge of my relationships with people who can go lengths to look out for me exactly the way I always did for them but realizing that I could learn from them is exactly what prevented me from being comfortable with holding onto my primacy notions.
