The fool is the precursor to the savior.

–Carl Jung

I am confidently sure that no one is endowed with a consummate mind that is capable of unspeakable abilities. All of us have holes that we desire to fill through our desires. But, we are mere humans with natural and unnatural restrictions that our best desires are often bounded by our limitations, making it unlikely to be in our possession. If this is not the case and that the truth is otherwise, one can live as an island with all by himself. But, obviously, it is not, for no one is self-sufficing. We call upon other’s help and presence when we need it because we are not predisposed to be perfect individuals that disregard others.

Great men and women with a prestigious professions, furnished with great knowledge and wisdom, mostly end up with no progress and synthesis on a serious conversation about what must be done to soothe this chaotic world. Every individual has diverse concepts of an ideal society wherein all are in tranquil footing and harmonic settlement. The problem comes in when none of them considers the other of having sensible ideas, rather, one sees the uncommon idea, however well-formed and good it is, as erroneous and unacceptable just because it is not his/her own thought. This is the basic problem of problems: Our ideas are oil and water. The latter won’t compromise to the former and the reverse. The idea of one compromises only to those with the same concept as oil mixes with oil and not with water; the same case with water to oil.

The aforementioned scenario depicts a world that lacks harmonic understanding between one and another, especially to intellectuals be it students, professionals, politicians, and so on. More so, it is a problem of today. Perhaps, this is an effect of a world that is driven and motivated by competition: Nobody is better but the beholder and that everything that is not common to him/her is wrong. Moreover, people mostly value their own than that of others, hence, that gives a bit of sense that what is valued the most is right regardless of its true essence.

Perhaps, people force themselves to not agree, even if the idea is irrefutably great because it is instilled that submission to the idea of others is defeat. Thereby, people are hurt with that conception of defeat because it somehow tells them of their wrongness, their loopholes, their deficiency. More so, wrongness for them is a degradation of their intellectual capability, hence, the feeling of inferiority diminishes their individuality. Therefore, the act of not agreeing to something incontrovertible becomes a defense mechanism of an individual from embarrassment. In simpler words, people would rather insist to be right than to be prolific upon acknowledging they are wrong.

It must be supplanted to every mind thereof, that the admittance of one’s wrongness does not degrade one’s capability, for it is said that only when we accept our ignorance that wisdom proliferates. The wrongness of action contributes to the formulation of the rightness of such. If a person only knows the rightness of an act, without knowing the opposite side of it, that person has a crude and flimsy understanding of it. The wrongness contributes to the rational grounds of all knowledge from which all things progress. Again, we must not be cowards to face our wrongness. More power to those who embrace their wrongness in exchange for being effective and efficient.