misconceptions

Log start: 8:52pm June 12th, 2010

People often believe too much of a persons words without confirming the truth.

Let's take for example, my work. If I were to give permission to a child's parent to register them in a swim class, i won't ask them "do you know how to swim?" "are you good at it?" because as a kid, they'll say "yeah! my parents say i'll be micheal phelps one day! i can swim faster than everyone here"

and then what happens? they register, teacher tells them to hop into the pool in the deep end and they sink straight to the bottom.
^ hypothetical situation - i'm not that irresponsible...

but imagine that the above was real, why would i believe a kid? i was once a kid, i know how their mind works, they always think that they're the best, but in reality they're not.

Reality: what the world really is.

That is why there are procedures, you have to test the child and then you have to confirm it for yourself. great for them if they really are the next micheal phelps, but there are only so many swimming prodigies out there, so chances are, you're not actually good and you're just being a little bitch lying to me.

True story for real life. why would someone believe something that's said about someone else from another person??? <-- confusing line...
here's an example

3 People: A, B, C
A talks to B about C
B believes A
C is automatically the asshat because B doesn't double check with C to confirm something.

even in math, the professors make you check your answer, what happens when your answer is wrong? you change it! durrr. but if you never check, how do you know your answer is wrong? get what i'm trying to say?

Today at the store, i overheard two asian ladies saying
"wow, did you hear about _____'s son? my son says he drinks and does drugs!"
"WOW, REALLY??? don't tell her mother that, or she'll be sad... i'll never look at him the same way again..."

this is how shit starts. lol.

although what was said may or may not be true, without a proper explanation from the kid, he'll just be guilty instead of having the chance of not being guilty.

everyone racks up shit like this everyday, myself included in that equation. someone says something, you go "OMG!" and you never double check to see if facts are right.

it's like playing a continuous game of Telephone without checking with the original person, how are you going to know if your story is right without checking with them???

KNOW WHAT I'M SAYING!?!? lol

misconceptions grow from these kinds of behaviors, these misconceptions create drama, and drama destroys everything.
something that could of easily been prevented and yet we all choose to let it go out of hand and let it destroy because it's just "too much work" sometimes to get the job done right. how would you be able to live with yourself knowing you destroyed everything with your own hands AND that you had the option of choosing to not destroy it from the very beginning.

doesn't make sense to me... maybe somethings aren't supposed to make sense and our human perception cannot master that emotion.
whatever it may be, there are always problems, but we choose to deal with them or not, sometimes we choose not to deal with them more and that's where misconceptions start and end up destroying.

HakoneDayDreamer, i wonder how much of the past i can fix with a time machine... no use pondering now, although i'm pretty sure me and everyone of you that's reading this will end up repeating all of this in real life... humans are so flawed, lol.