I think knowing your inner convictions is the easiest thing and the hardest. Because of course you have to be able to listen, you have to, but you also have to be able to recognize when somebody is dead wrong, like you already knew how to do at twelve. The way you describe it and yourself--this might sound weird, but you remind me of my mother. She knows how to beat them with their own argument, has known that since she was twelve and had a teacher who was conservative and nuts and used to send her out of class every day in the hopes she'd fail (she didn't). Thank goodness for your teacher though, oh man.
And the next part of your comment actually made me cry, a little. All I've ever wanted is to use my writing in a way that does something (quick, three guesses who in MCR I over-identify with) for someone and oh, thank you for telling me it meant something to you. Thank you so much. And I don't think I would know how to be any other way than how I am. (Don't you change, either.) ♥
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Date: 2009-11-30 10:32 pm (UTC)I think knowing your inner convictions is the easiest thing and the hardest. Because of course you have to be able to listen, you have to, but you also have to be able to recognize when somebody is dead wrong, like you already knew how to do at twelve. The way you describe it and yourself--this might sound weird, but you remind me of my mother. She knows how to beat them with their own argument, has known that since she was twelve and had a teacher who was conservative and nuts and used to send her out of class every day in the hopes she'd fail (she didn't). Thank goodness for your teacher though, oh man.
And the next part of your comment actually made me cry, a little. All I've ever wanted is to use my writing in a way that does something (quick, three guesses who in MCR I over-identify with) for someone and oh, thank you for telling me it meant something to you. Thank you so much. And I don't think I would know how to be any other way than how I am. (Don't you change, either.) ♥