You're Right...No....I am.

How amazing would it be to be one of those people who is always right?  I don't just mean being correct by whim or circumstance, I mean having the confidence to say whatever you want about anything you want and know that you will never be proven wrong.


Here is the definition of correct:


To remove the errors or mistakes from.

To indicate or mark the errors in.

To punish for the purpose of improving or reforming.

To remove, remedy, or counteract (a malfunction, for example).

To adjust so as to meet a required standard or conditionTo make corrections.

To make adjustments; compensate.

Free from error or fault; true or accurate.

Conforming to standards; proper: correct behavior.

The definition of "correct" holds within it various meanings from simply remedying an error to improving or reforming something, even a person.

What about daily life and those who are always right?  How important is that in the big scheme of things?  I will admit, I love it when I prove my husband wrong about a trivia question or the weather forecast, but how far should a person take it before the need to be correct becomes something of a cancerous demon taking over your entire personality?

As Peter T. McIntyre once said; "Confidence comes not from always being right but from not fearing to be wrong."

Think back to the days when you sat at your desk in public school and the teacher called upon you to answer a question.  You sat there, dumbfounded, turning red, humiliated, thinking the answer over and over in your head, but to scared to say it and be embarrassed by your possible stupid answer.  The next person, the perfect girl in front, raises her hand and speaks loud and clear the faultless answer, looking at you as though to say, "huh, in your face dumb ass." 

So, the question is...is being correct or right all the time simply having the confidence to speak your knowledge, or, is it actually having 100% certainty in everything on earth, yes everything from pop culture to history to predictions of future events?

You tell me?

Some of the greatest philosophers in the world were shamed as lunatics but are know heralded for their wisdom.  At what point do you go from being a stupid dreamer to an ingenious thinker?  Unfortunately the answer is likely death.  I have passed the infamous age of 27 so I know that I have passed my age to die famous with legends of my existence going on for eternity...but I will say...

I will say.....

I am not a genius....

But neither are you.

Just wait Socrates, Descartes, Plato, Aquinas, Chomsky, Aristotle and oh Kristeva...Kristeva...Kristeva....we'll all join you one day.

"When the starry sky, a vista of open seas, or a stained-glass window shedding purple beams fascinate me, there is a cluster of meaning, of colors, of words, of caresses, there are light touches, scents, sighs, cadences that arise, shroud me, carry me away, and sweep me beyond the things I see, hear, or think, The "sublime" object dissolves in the raptures of a bottomless memory. It is such a memory, which, from stopping point to stopping point, remembrance to remembrance, love to love, transfers that object to the refulgent point of the dazzlement in which I stray in order to be."
— Julia Kristeva (Powers of Horror: An Essay on Abjection)