It isn't easy being right.Sometimes I find myself wondering if there might just some benefits to not knowing what you're talking about. I read the other blog posts here on the Crum Family Blogsite and I realize that we're always right. Sure, there might be a little bit of disagreement over some of the details, but overall we're always right on. This perfection comes at a price though. Not everyone correctly interprets our self-sureness (what I like to call "Crum Confidence"). This is not self-reliance per se. Self-reliance contains a fatal weakness; not always recognizing one's weaknesses or limitations. Crum Confidence on the other hand is based on generations of experience. Crum Confidence is merely an acknowledgement of the fact that we have no weaknesses or limitations.
The reason I suggest that it isn't easy being right, is not that being right is in and of itself difficult, it is the dealing with always being right that can be so hard to take. When you get into an argument or even just a friendly discussion with a non-Crum, and you make your indisputable point, it just tugs at your heartstrings to see the look in that other person's eyes. Wouldn't it be nice to just once know that the other person is right? Perhaps even feel (what has only been explained to me by others) that sting of being wrong. Are we as Crums missing out on one of life's most important emotions; the agony of being incorrect?
Now obviously this is all just me rambling on, speculating on something that can never be. But it is good to think about, it may actually assist you in your Crum/non-Crum relationships. Try this next time you get into a discussion: Once you have dropped that all-encompassing, irrefutable, mind-boggling answer to end all answers, and as that glazed look begins to creep across the face of your friend, say "That was a great point! I never thought of it that way before". You see, even if we can't help but be right all the time, we don't always have to take all the credit.
2 comments:
Some people have said that, because Crum's sometimes contradict each other that, since one must be wrong, then a Crum can be wrong than obviously Crum's are capable of being wrong.
This would seem to be a logical argument, and I would admit that no one Crum is always right, but a Crum is always most right! Thus, in an argument between a Crum and non-Crum the Crum will come out right. In a Crum-to-Crum dispute, the Crum with the most full heart containers will undoubtedly win-out.
Nice try non-Crum!!!
wardo,
this may be the most moving piece of genius I have ever read. I was moved to tears, not once, but twice. The time where you so perfectly mentioned the heartstrings was especially poignant. You spoke what I for solong could only feel.
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