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My name is Joy, and I love to write. Why poetry, here? Because poetry uplifts its writer, and if she is lucky enough, her readers, too. Around us, so many objects abound to write about. Once a poet starts with a smallest, most trivial object, he shall discover that his pen will spill out what is most delicate or most majestic hidden inside him. Since the classics sometimes dealt with lofty subjects with a lofty language, a person with poetry in his soul may incline to emulate that. That is understandable. Poetry does that to a person: it enlarges the soul and gives it wings. Yet, to really soar, a poet needs to take off from the ground. Kiya's gift. I love it!
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"Failure is unimportant. It takes courage to make a fool of yourself."
CHARLIE CHAPLIN


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Sometimes it takes darkness and the sweet
confinement of your aloneness
to learn
anything or anyone
that does not bring you alive
is too small for you.

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This is my supplementary blog in which I will post entries written for prompts.

March 10, 2018 at 11:49pm
March 10, 2018 at 11:49pm
#930386
PROMPT: What's your favorite way of responding to someone who considers their competence to be at least on some level knowledgeable in a category they've visibly proven they're less than capable of living up to? Where's the line when it comes to calling people out on their self-perceived superiority?

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First, truly knowledgeable people do not act superior to others. When it comes to calling people out on their self-perceived superiority, I myself have to be really knowledgeable in that area, and I would only call anyone out if their self-perceived competence is misleading other people or causing any problems for someone else.

Then another scenario could be, provided that I have more knowledge than such a person and if I find such people open to suggestions, I would try to recommend them some reading material or some courses they could attend to.

Otherwise, it is not my business to beat up on people who are incompetent and headstrong unless they are hurting someone or something.

Acting superior in an area when one is not capable may mean that person has a superiority complex, as that's the exact name Alfred Adler called it. Superiority Complex is a defense mechanism, and it is the result of feeling inadequate. If I suspect that a person's superiority show is the result of such a complex, I might try to ease his burden by showing the truly positive things in his life, but doing more than that still is not my business. That person has to see a therapist.
March 10, 2018 at 5:25pm
March 10, 2018 at 5:25pm
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Prompt: Do you ever have days when you know if you say what's really on your mind, you'll scare people away? Here's your opportunity to vent without consequence What's really on your mind?

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Keeping thoughts to myself doesn’t mean I am keeping them a secret, but there are boundaries where people are concerned and no one should cross them. Aside from those boundaries, I don’t keep secrets about myself because secrets point to fear, and I fear nobody.

What I fear, if I fear, is hurting someone else’s self-confidence or belief system. Most people are fiery about their political views and religious beliefs or non-beliefs. Even though it is everyone’s legal right to express them without insulting the other person, some people are so militaristic that another person’s opinion, however politely expressed, they take as an affront. So, I won’t talk about religion or politics, period, but I don’t fear about scaring anyone away. I fear they’ll hurt themselves because they can’t stand someone else’s truth. Then, why should I talk about something that’s on my mind, something that bugs me, especially in a blog where the whole world can have access to?

Telling things without wanting to is succumbing to pressure. I don't take pressure well, and I am not afraid of scaring anyone away. Those who have decided to stay away from me are already staying away, I’m sure.

In addition, I don’t need to vent about anyone, but if I wanted to vent, I would vent about myself, about things like, why is it that, after I got older, I have less stamina or why am I forgetting stuff more and why am I, once in a while, using the wrong word instead of the intended one?



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