I agree. I was very argumentative. I wanted things to happen MY way. Everytime. I had set rules. I expected people to follow them. I used to get ticked off, if people did not. I wanted stuff to be as “planned’ as possible. Not that I used to blow up in People’s faces. But after 100 patient explanations, yeah, I did blow up.

Then, that day dawned. I thought long. Hard even. I wanted things to be perfect, so that when something absolutely goes wrong, we’d be prepared. But, people never thought on the same page as me. That pissed me off. I lost my cool. I argued. The person argued back with stupid explanations. Then, sweet enligtenment.

If you explain something patiently a zillion times, and yell about it the zillionth and first time, the fact that ALWAYS stands out is that you yelled, no matter how mentally retarded the person on the oposite end behaved, the first zillion times.

When we argue, do we REALLY think the person we’re arguing with is going to accept our Point of view? A simple three letter word prevents the person from doing so. EGO. We are all so full of it. What WE do is ALWAYS right. Then, sweet enlightenment again.

An argument is just an unnecessary waste of energy. No one is really going to do things your way,or see your point of view if you want them to, no matter how much you explain that this would be the ‘best’ thing to do.

I had read somewhere ‘ I say it best, when I say nothing ‘. Brilliant.

Ah, sweet silence. As they said ‘ You can take a horse to the pond, but you cant make it drink ‘. I beg to differ now. Let the horse find its way to the pond.

By itself.

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