Bragging

Hi! January 24, 2008. History is made. Today, I silenced my doubters and made more believers.

We performed our version of Les Miserables and I play the role of Enjolras. Hey, I can sing. And hey, we stamped our names in school history as the first class to attempt to do a musical if Les Miserables and... Succeeding. You see succeeding is broad, and maybe I'll talk about it some other time. For now, it's the post title. Let's get there.

Bragging

So about bragging... I'm actually the type of guy who brags a lot, and with that I'm gonna say it, this may turn into nothing close to my other posts. It might go on and become a rant.

Bragging/Boasting is telling everyone your excellence on one or more catergory of life.

A lot of people look at it badly, but I don't think so, they look at it that way maybe because that is the automatic response of ordinary people. Finding the wrong in what people do.

You know how people look at small mistakes as big time, but they don't see your contributions and it is all disintegrated by one puny, tiny mistake. I know you know this happens to you occasionally, and when it does, when you're not used to it, you get demoralized. I, however, am not.

To me, this is all a part life. People putting you down. Yada yada. So you might have gotten lost in my very moving statements, so to remind you, it's what people usually see in bragging. They only think of it as a bad thing and they put you down because of it. They backstab you, stuff like that. So basically, people see bragging as bad even if the "evil" factor isn't there...

EVIL FACTOR??!! Huh?

The evil factor is an optional part of bragging - putting other people down. Down below. Down benneath. In case you didn't catch it... Here's an example.

John: I am very good in video games, and oh man, your skills aren't even half of mine!

What is the evil factor here? The italicized letters.

Let me tell you, bragging isn't bad unless you put the evil factor in it. I admit that I use it myself, but not as much as I use the plain bragging.

What am I saying? I suppose you figured it out already. The people who say bragging is all bad are just OMGSDOAP. What is... OMGSDOAP?

Oh
My
God
So
Damn
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These are the people who say that braggers are bad people, or that when good people start bragging without the evil factor(let's call it EF), they immidiately become bad. How can you be bad when you are not putting other people down?

I mean, isn't evil all about involving other people and making them slide down ramps to make them hit hard? And, since when is raising self-esteem bad?

Is that the case? Well if it is, let's call ourselves bad when we say "I can do this", "I can get through these obstacles" or whatever.

If bragging without EF and raising self-esteem isn't the same at all, let me prove to you that they are in fact the same.

If I say "I can do this, this is easy" in my mind people can't hear that and it serves as a statement that raises self-esteem. However, if I say "I can obviously do this. It's gonna be a piece of cake" out loud it would be immidiately bad, however to me it's just something that raises self esteem. I mean, they mean the same thing. Duh.

Conclusions:

1. Do not ever try to hit a person who's trying to get his spirits up with lame statements which composes of stuff telling him/her that he/she is immoral. If you do try to do that after reading this blog entry, you're messed up cause you know what the difference between bragging with and without the EF.

2. Do not judge a person's intentions by what he says.

3. Analyze all angles before telling a person what you think.


That's it. I guess it did turn into a rant. Didn't mean to hurt anybody. I also think I don't have to write about LeBron anymore. Just keep it up.

Have a nice day everyone. Thank you for reading.