One of my biggest pet peeves are people that try to talk down to me. How irritating, and who the hell do these people think they are anyway? They try to succeed in
doing this in a number of different ways. One of those ways is discovering a number of your weak areas, especially those areas they may be a little stronger in than you
are. They make it a point to remember those areas and use them against you to their own advantage in later conversations to make them selves look a little better in the
eyes of others. Some different techniques they may also use may be to mention your lack of education compared to theirs, or maybe their better qualifications for job
oppertunities compared to those of your own, and on and on. It is important to these people to spot any and all of the weaker points of your personality and education
so they can capitalize and gain from it at some later point in time at your expense.

STOP RIGHT HERE! If you are one of these types of people you might as well just move on somewhere else right now. I have no time for these types of people,
nor do I want them in my life.

The sad part about people like this is their lack of insight into their own personality do to Ego, or their own insecurities. Sure, you can talk down to people because
of those, or other problems within yourself, but are you really becoming better than me or anybody else while you're doing so? No, not really! You may know a lot
more than me or the next guy about a lot of things, and you may excell much better in some areas than me or the next guy, but guess what? It goes both ways!

Each of us as human beings have areas we excell in a little better than the next guy, and we are each a little smarter than others about some things. However,
your better job oppertunities or higher education do not give you a right to project yourself as being bigger and better than the other human beings around you.
For you to project yourself as anything but equal to those around you is to create for yourself, your own window within for other's to see your own true lack of
education and creativeness for not being able to see this flaw within your self. Is it not better to build up and teach than it is to tear down and destroy?

At the same time, we must also be open, and aware of those who are truely trying to help us by sharing the knowledge and education they do posess. There is a
fine line between building up and tearing down and it is up to each of us to become aware of where that line starts and stops.
DON'T MAKE THE MISTAKE OF TRYING TO TALK DOWN TO ME. I will call you on it at some point in time and by then the friendship may already be damaged,
behond repair!

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