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I want to be both.
Sometimes I am one or the other.
Sometimes I am neither.
It seems the question is really, how important is it to you that other people think you are right?
When I was younger, this was very important to me. It was very frustrating to not be able to make others see things my way.
Now that I'm older, this is is not important to me at all. I can easily walk away from discussions without having proven anything at all.
The key difference is that now I have much more confidence in the things I think are right and I don't need anyone else's approval to feel that way.
Also important is that I have learned it's actually quite easy to admit when I am wrong.
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Most people go through life dreading they'll have a traumatic experience. Freaks were born with their trauma. They've already passed their test in life. They're aristocrats. - Diane Arbus
PESSIMISM, n. A philosophy forced upon the convictions of the observer by the disheartening prevalence of the optimist with his scarecrow hope and his unsightly smile. - Ambrose Bierce
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