Dealing with people who never listen to anyone else
in Psychology ·
I recently attended an interactive theater production featuring two female doctors as the leads—one in her seventies and the other middle-aged. The central theme was romantic relationships. Now, while I genuinely enjoy listening to both of them whenever the opportunity arises, their conflicting perspectives on this specific subject were handled poorly due to the limited timeframe—it simply wasn't constructive. I found the entire experience to be a complete failure, precisely because of that lack of depth. And what happened next? During the following performance, I was actually pulled from the audience and characterized as nothing less than a hater—specifically targeting the older lady and everything she had to say. In an attempt to add "drama" to the script, the director introduced a character—a sort of young, arrogant Neanderthal type (forgive me, I can't help my descriptions)—who essentially lectured me from a position of superiority about how I should behave...🙂Once he realized how absurd his posturing actually was, he softened his tone somewhat. So, the question remains: do I respect my elders? Of course—always, provided they conduct themselves with basic decency. But where does the line of tolerance actually fall when someone refuses to acknowledge my viewpoint? It seems to me that the limit is reached when one holds pragmatically to their own convictions—and apparently, in this particular instance involving that lady, my convictions were interpreted as wishing her the worst or lacking any respect for her at all. And no, I have absolutely no desire to argue. Nor am I particularly motivated to engage in further communication. Whether one chooses to be wise or attempts to push me back onto that thin ice again—well, that is a matter of personal discretion.