{"id":1460,"date":"2010-01-01T12:42:05","date_gmt":"2010-01-01T17:42:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.niqueworks.ca\/?p=1460"},"modified":"2010-01-01T12:44:26","modified_gmt":"2010-01-01T17:44:26","slug":"why-i-am-better-than-you-%e2%80%93-different-strokes-for-different-folks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.niqueworks.ca\/?p=1460","title":{"rendered":"Why I Am Better Than You \u2013 Different Strokes for Different Folks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Different people are different.\u00a0 I know that\u2019s hard for you to understand because you are you and you want everyone else on the planet to be exactly like you but I am me and I don\u2019t want to be like you because in my opinion you suck and I rock.\u00a0 I know you think you rock and I suck but you are wrong and I am right.\u00a0 No, I kid, I kid\u2026 we\u2019re both wrong.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0Aside from people who deliberately do harm, like killers and rapists and high school gym teachers, we\u2019re all just living our lives trying to make it to tomorrow.\u00a0 No one\u2019s trying to fuck you over, they\u2019re just trying to do what works for them.\u00a0 So when your friend who is chronically late shows up late, don\u2019t rant at him for two hours for being late, that\u2019ll just make you even later to whatever event you\u2019re supposed to go to.\u00a0 Instead of being pissed at Latey McCan\u2019tTellTime, why not always tell him to show up to places a half hour before you plan on showing up?\u00a0 That way you both win.\u00a0 Some people are punctual and you can tell them to show up at 5:30 and they show up at 5:25 but some people are just shit at time management and they aren\u2019t doing it to be mean, they just really suck in that particular way and you getting mad at them only stresses you both out.\u00a0 Don\u2019t expect Latey to live up to your standards of punctuality, just take him on his own merits.\u00a0 If you\u2019re friends with him then he probably brings something to the table that you enjoy so keep him as a friend and stop stressing over it.\u00a0 Yeah, his unwillingness to wear a watch is annoying but you have better things to do than trying to change him.\u00a0 So don\u2019t even try.\u00a0 Just change your own attitude instead.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0That\u2019s just one example of behaviour that creates conflict but I\u2019m sure you can think of other situations that could be resolved with the simple ingestion of a chill pill.\u00a0 It\u2019s important to remember that everyone needs to be taken on their own merits and judged according to their own standards.\u00a0 Person A can do thing 1 and person B can do thing 2 so don\u2019t assign task 1 to person B.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0I\u2019m mostly talking about personal relationships here.\u00a0 When it comes to business, you actually should expect Frazzled McLatesalot to come to work on time and if he can\u2019t manage it then dude needs to get fired.\u00a0 And while we should be accepting of various people\u2019s abilities and lack thereof, there remain a few universal standards to live by, like everyone should be expected to adhere to a certain level of personal hygiene and maybe don\u2019t hang with that dude with major B.O. who refuses to wear deodorant because he thinks his natural musk makes him more virile.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0My overall point is just that you can\u2019t really expect other people to do things the way you like them to get done.\u00a0 They are probably looking at you thinking you\u2019re not doing it right either and neither one of you is more right or wrong than the other.\u00a0 At the end of the day the only thing any of us can really be sure of is that I Am Better Than You.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Different people are different.\u00a0 I know that\u2019s hard for you to understand because you are you and you want everyone else on the planet to be exactly like you but I am me and I don\u2019t want to be like you because in my opinion you suck and I rock.\u00a0 I know you think you 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