Wouldn’t it be lovely to be arrogant?
Just think about it. Remember the last
time you joined a conversation with what you thought was a relevant
and insightful comment, and the conversation stopped dead? Wouldn’t
it be lovely to be arrogant? You could assume that what you said was
so logical and brilliant that everyone was persuaded to your
point-of-view, rendering further conversation completely unnecessary.
But, no, without arrogance, you have to
assume that what you said was so out there and weird that no one knew
how to respond. And, once again, you were the freak that didn’t
understand the rules of proper conversation. Topic killer.
So the next time you are privy to such
a conversation, you fall back to dropping the occasional pertinent
fact, without attaching any personal opinion to it, like some kind of
Trivial Pursuit® Master.
And still you don’t feel part of the group. Know-it-all.
Wouldn’t it be lovely to be arrogant?
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The good thing about arrogance
The good thing about arrogance is that you can fake it. If you’ve spent enough time observing conversations instead of being at their core, you know how accomplished, self-assured, arrogant people act, so it becomes relatively easy to mimic their behaviours.Â
Acting arrogant is one of my ways of coping with insecurity. You know, when it’s absolutely mandatory that I don’t behave like something that’s that’ll die when you rip it out of its corner.
One context is in language classes. I know from experience that I’ll only learn a foreign language by speaking it a lot. For me that’s the best way to commit all kinds of constructions and words to memory. So before class I prep myself up to a stance of arrogance and, yes, disdain. "I’m here to say as much as I can without disrupting order and I don’t give a fuck about what the rest of you guys think; you’re only minor details in my life anyway. Hardly worth paying attention to, really." Consequently, a number of my class mates think I’m a sociable extravert.
….I find women with a
….I find women with a certain level of arrogance to be quite attractive….Â
"I don’t think you need to know. Best leave here with your head still full of kitty cats and puppy dogs." -Otis, ‘House of 1000 Corpses’
I’m not sure if I’ll
I’m not sure if I’ll ever go anywhere with this, or if it even has any place to go. I’m just so out of practice writing, I thought I’d better start somewhere.
I liked it, Maus, because
I liked it, Maus, because of the air of truthfulness.
I look forward to reading more of your stuff. Out of practice or not, I enjoyed reading something ‘real’ and getting a glimpse inside your thoughts. Â
Yeah, that’s it.