Stubborness

It is a sensitive word...it can mean good and bad.

I was thinking about this after a comment the day before on my previous post.

All I can say is, while I can say that I am stubborn at times, I am not totally stubborn as someone put it. If that's the case, I guess I would have been 'slaughtered' a long time ago.

While obstinacy is bad, it can also be good as well. After all, it is far better than someone who just goes with the wind, has no comments on literally anything, and just lives by the day. Because to do that gives that person no purpose in life, and makes him a bigger failure than others.

It must also be understood that in determination, a portion of that comes from the stubborness in not giving in, in not hearing hearsay, in not hearing derogatory words thrown or actions cast in your direction. It is about doing it whatever the cost because we know the ultimate good of doing it.

Nothing can be achieved if we always suit ourselves to the interests' of others. It will get us nowhere.

I believe that while I know I have angered a lot of people because of my stubborness, I do it because I know it is right. And I am vindicated as such by the events that have gone that way and my knowing that they would have gone worse if not done so. Of course, there are situations where it backfired, but I will live with it.

The only thing I can do is to remove the bad part of my stubborness, which is to be more partial. But not to remove the good part of my stubborness which is my drive to doing whatever it takes to make something good. Because that's the very basis of my willpower.