It’s okay to change your mind. Don’t be embarrassed about that thing that you hated with a passion for years of your life and then suddenly came to find yourself enjoying without any rational reason. There’s no self help group for that because it’s not a problem. The problem lies in your stubbornness and your inability to admit to the people around you that when you ranted and raved about how dumb it was and that they were morons for enjoying it, maybe, it wasn’t actually so bad.
It’s okay to contradict yourself. Nothing in the world has only two perspectives. There is not one single thing that can only be seen from two angles, that is relegated to the categories of a) BLACK or b) WHITE. There is nothing and for that reason you ARE going to contradict yourself and when it happens, embrace it because it’s not a bad thing. Irrationality is a way of life. Jump ship, change sides and do it without reason. People will pounce on your contradictions in arguments, as you will jump on theirs but that’s only desperation, a flash of vulnerability that can’t be passed up. Yours, theirs and my need to gloat at the besting of a fellow man in a battle of who’s RIGHT and who’s WRONG. No, fuck you! We can’t both be right, that’s PHYSICS and PHYSICS is SCIENCE and SCIENCE is FACT. I. AM. RIGHT!
It’s okay to play devil’s advocate even if you don’t mean it. (In fact it’s important!) It stretches the mind. Not yours but the minds of others, and at best it gives them a chance to argue with you and who doesn’t like a good argument. Sometimes it’s nice to play for the losing side. Always it’s challenging.
It’s okay to be wrong. At least if you can admit it.
DISCLAIMER: Everything in this article was maybe a lie. Maybe. But it probably was.
