Foolish Consistency

[lukejoo1092]

I forgot its title but from the literary work of Emerson we're learning about, it says that one of the two things that interfere with us being our true selves is foolish consistency. I won't explain again what it's about since i bet u all know what it is by now but was there a time when you were foolishly consistent?

For me, i remember that when i was young, i almost never went to pc bangs because my parents told me it wasn't good. so whenever my elementary school friends went to go to a pc bang, i always said no. but once i got into this online game and learned that u get double experience points and double drop rates for items if you play at a pc bang, i really wanted to go to one. but after saying that i can't go to my friends for so much, i really had no idea of how say that i want to go to a pc bang but not have them criticize me for being a bore all this time. eventually, i had to wait until it was my friend's birthday and after his party we all went to a pc bang at last. i just acted like i'll go since its a special day.

so how bout you? was there a time when you were foolishly consistent?

[brandonina]

Okay, let me be honest here.
I like playing soccer but I didn't want to play in an organized soccer team, especially this year. The first year of high school varsity soccer was last year. I've always rejected people when they told me to play soccer along with them. How I got to play soccer was mostly by force and peer pressure. Anyways, since I said "Yes, I'm going to play soccer," , unwillingly, I had to play soccer because if I just leave the team after I change my mind, people would call me a betrayer, loser, or whatever they say. But this wasn't the main reason why I continued playing soccer. I told myself "Okay, I'm just going to finish soccer since I started and I don't want to let myself down by giving up and quitting." rather than "I like soccer and my instinct tells me so, so I'm going to do it."

Yeah.. that's my example. But after I started playing soccer, I recently figured out the reason why people enjoy playing in organized soccer team and I love the coach so... I'm actually proud of myself for being in this position. If I went back in time, I would still say yes to the coach that I would play soccer for him even though I would be foolishly consistent.

[yeajinchoi]

In my case, it's something I'm something that I don't regret that much.
I'm not allowed to dye my hair because of my parents and I told everyone that I'm not allowed to dye my hair. One day, my mom asked me if I wanted to dye my hair, telling me that if I really want to I can, and I told her I wanted to but I won't. She told me I won't get a second chance but I stuck with my answer just because I didn't want to change my mind so easily I wanted to look consistent and show my mom that I'm not a fickle person. I knew I was being foolishly consistent but I'm glad that I didn't dye my hair.

[gb1708]

I was in this case lots of time that when i was in middle school in Viet Nam, friend always tell me to do something crazy and break the rule. It was really fun but sometimes i don't want to do that. But I was doing that to follow my friends.

[misatonakano]

My Japanese school has foolish consistency such like prohibit us piercing, to change hair color,shorten a skirt of school uniform etc...

[sergeyfen]

When i was 7th grader my parents didnt allow me to play sports, i was really sad and pissed because i really wanted to play mid school basketball. In 8th grade my grades were sort of better but still pretty bad and my parents once again didnt allow me to play cuz i had like 2 Fs. For some reason i had opportunity to play in jamboree, i felt bad but still went because i really wanted to play and i just told my parents that im going out with friends.

[james]

I guess there were many moments like this. For me, when I was in middle school, I wanted to get a new laptop. But everytime my friends asked me if i am going to get a new laptop, I said I won't because it was wasting money when I already have one. A few weeks later my parents asked me for my birthday present and I really wanted a new laptop but I didn't just because I told my friends that I won't change my laptop. It was pretty stupid..

[JustinK.]

XDXD my experience makes me sound very stubborn. Every morning, i have my alarm clock set to 7:00am. Everyday i would wake up exactly at that time, not earlier or later. Sometimes my mom would come in and wake me up earlier and i tend to just sleep until 7 no matter if i want to or not.... I don't know how this behavior came to be, but it's just what happened~~ :3

[ruru]

h, how's it goin'? i only have one day left to finish all my work but i have to TAKE CARE OF MY SISTERRRR!!!!!

[nadiraamalina]

I made a claim to some people that I was going to go vegetarian for a week. I knew that I couldn't possibly do it. Not because I lacked the will, but because it would be impossible for me to eat the school lunches (which may or may not be a good thing). My friends were all 'Oh no, you can't possibly do that' like the personifications of supportiveness they are. But to prove my point, i stubbornly decided that I would go vegetarian.

Three days later, I went back to eating meat. Mostly because admitting to your friends that you're wrong is less embarrassing than having your stomach growl loudly in 5th period.

[woojongpark]

My experience was silly. 3 weeks ago, I asked my dad to buy me a new game, and he did. But I promised myself I won't even look at the game until my test ended, and I did so even though I wanted to open it very badly. No one told me not to open it, but I still did because of my foolish consistency. Yup, I made myself suffer, but I don't regret doing it because I might have messed up my test because I would be busy playing instead of studying.

[deeksha]

haha!! Ikr Nadira. I told u to do that. U did aur few days that than u gave up!! haha