Many people do not
realize the frustration in being proven wrong.
I, on the other hand, am just the kind of person who hates being proven
wrong. Usually, I get proven wrong when
I’m with my friends, while playing a board game or when I’m discussing the
rules of a game,.
As I was saying
above, I get proven wrong when I’m with my friends. A few months ago, Advika
and I had made a bet. A bet that I wouldn’t get more than her on the Biology
exam. Now, just a few weeks ago, we got our marks. I read mine and she read
hers. And just as I had suspected, Advika had gotten a little bit higher than
me. Then she told me that I owed her something. I said that we never had a bet
on this. So, we started arguing and………….. you get the point. That is one situation
in which I got proven wrong.
Sometimes, I get
proven wrong while playing or learning how to play a board game. Such as the
time when my first grade class was learning to play chess. I said that pawns
were supposed to move sideways and forward. Then, my friend said “No, they move
forward but the kill diagonally.”
So we asked the
teacher and he said that she was right. After that, I ran to the girls toilet
and hid in one of the stalls, sulking. (I was six years old then, don’t judge
me!)
When I am
discussing the rules of a game with my friends, I don’t like feeling that I am
wrong! One time, my friends and I were in the playground and we decided to play
freeze tag. Suddenly my friend said that she knew exactly how to play. She told
us that “ If you get tagged, someone else has to crawl under your legs to free
you”. “That is wrong!” I said.
“ In freeze tag
you just have to tap the person to free them”. So we a vote on which way to
play and I won. We all ended up playing my way happily while my other friend(
the one who I was fighting with) stormd off home.
After remembering
these life stories of mine, I am realizing that I must have acted quite mean in
all these situations! Nowadays, I don’t have many fights with my friends about
being proven wrong. I also get proven wrong when I’m going out to a restaurant,
mall, vacation to another country, watching TV or something as random as that.
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