We all have run into one of those people in our lives whether it is in real life or any one of the many self-absorbed arrogant trolls on the Internet. They are the type that no matter what the topic is their opinion is the only opinion that matters. This is something that goes well beyond confidence but into a degree of arrogance rarely seen.

Their arrogance can almost be considered at the level of Clinical Insanity as no matter what the logical argument, no matter what the facts are, or no matter what anyone else says despite the most obvious correct stance they may have that clinically insane/ highly opinionated person is always right. It doesn’t matter what any details are at all. That person is right on everything no matter how insane their positions and how uninformed they are.

You could have a high school drop-out, no GED, never got their driver’s license (dito sa America), never worked a single day in any workforce, never ran an office, never ran a classroom, never held any political office, never been a manager, never ran a business person who is totally convinced that they are right about everything. It doesn’t matter that they have done nothing in the real or academic world but their life is all that they need and the History Channel or some other pathetic resource.

For individuals like that and for anyone you know like that, I would like to share this detail about the word called humility.

To put it in perspective a person needs to sit back and ponder the following:

According to the US Census Bureau, the world’s population is 6,736,979,674 or 6.7 billion people.

Of this, you might be known to exist by 25,000 people – maybe.

Of those 25,000, you may have 150 people that care about your opinion. I’m probably overestimating but oh well.

It means 6,736,954,674 people on this planet do not know you exist. Percentage wise, 99.9996% have no idea you live. But a massive 0.0004% does!!

It means 6,736,979,524 do not care one bit what you say. Percentage wise, to 99.999998% only know you as some mangmang on the planet. That makes a tremendous 0.000002% that actually wants to hear your opinion.

But that isn’t the best news of all, more people who will never care if you live or die are being born every minute of every day and your percentages are shrinking!!!

So to those who think they are so perfect that their opinion is the only opinion that matters in the world, please learn what this American phrase means. Please eat some humble pie.

For everyone else, forward this on to those who are like that.

Salamat po,

Anah

photo from http://www.dioceseofkeewatinlepas.ca

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