One of the things that I actually don’t like about myself is that sometimes I have the tendency to feel self righteousness. I don’t know, maybe it has something to do with me being idealistic at times. But in fairness to me, when I’m in the mode of being self righteous, I just keep it to myself. Sometimes I share it to a close friend (mitch), but just sometimes. I don’t normally show it to others. I don’t want others feel that I am being so right and I that they are wrong. When I see or feel something is wrong, I tell myself it is wrong. And I tell myself what is right. Believed it or not, I hate myself when I’m doing that.
I realized that showing self righteousness can really be so annoying and offending, most especially when the one being so righteous is someone who is not “right” at all. During my younger days, I used to be a “this is right – that is wrong person”, it was because I was afraid to do something wrong or bad. I was very careful to make a mistake. But when I grew older, I see myself, sometimes, doing wrong and bad things with my own will. So since then, I started hating my “self righteousness” thing, because I know, I don’t have the right to be. That’s why every time the feeling comes to me again, I just keep it to myself.
Aside from God, I believed that only perfect people have to right to demonstrate righteousness. If you have lived your life so perfectly and you did nothing wrong at all, then you are indeed righteous and I will admire you for that. You might be sitting next to God the next day. But if you know you are not perfect, if you know sometime, somewhere, you have made terrible things, please spare me your righteousness, especially if we’re on the same age.
So, lesson for myself, stop being “self righteous” even if I’m just keeping it to myself. I may think that I’m not showing it to people but smart ones might still actually feel that. I’ve felt how offending and annoying it is so I should know the effect by now. Lesson for others, if you are not perfect , don’t be so self righteous, don’t tell people which is right and wrong, unless you are in the position to do so. Don’t tell them what they did was wrong and what you did was right. People do things with reasons, even if it’s right or wrong, and you are not the one to tell if their reason is right or wrong. Peace out.