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I can't be perfect. No one is perfect. No matter what I think, or want to do, I will never be able to watch what I do and say every minute of the day. I like to think I'm a nice person, that I want to be a nice person, but then why must I constantly watch what I do and say. I advise others to be nice to everyone, even if they don't agree with them. I advise not to listen to rumors or gossip because you never really know the whole story. And yet, I can't completely get away from it myself. It makes me feel like a hypocrite. And people don't like hypocrites because they aren't nice people. But it's just so hard.
Today, I was interviewing with a candidate who may be the next dean of students. And I was talking how I would normally, telling him what I truly felt. I truly feel that the school focuses more on the football team then academics. So I exaggerate and say the football team is one of the biggest I've seen for such a small school. I didn't think anything of the statement. That is until after the interview a man who obviously deals with the athletic department confronted me with an angry tone and told me that I needed to get my facts straight, that they were undermanned, and that I was unprofessional.
No matter how much I feel he was rude, or I feel I have the right to my own opinion. I still feel bad. I feel bad for him and for myself. But I hate the most that I feel like I am overreacting to the situation. People are going to fight and get mad. People are going to get angry at me weather or not I or anyone else feels I am right or wrong. So, why can't I just accept this fact without getting so upset about it?
Today, I was interviewing with a candidate who may be the next dean of students. And I was talking how I would normally, telling him what I truly felt. I truly feel that the school focuses more on the football team then academics. So I exaggerate and say the football team is one of the biggest I've seen for such a small school. I didn't think anything of the statement. That is until after the interview a man who obviously deals with the athletic department confronted me with an angry tone and told me that I needed to get my facts straight, that they were undermanned, and that I was unprofessional.
No matter how much I feel he was rude, or I feel I have the right to my own opinion. I still feel bad. I feel bad for him and for myself. But I hate the most that I feel like I am overreacting to the situation. People are going to fight and get mad. People are going to get angry at me weather or not I or anyone else feels I am right or wrong. So, why can't I just accept this fact without getting so upset about it?