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  • Writer's pictureRajeel Javed

The Ladder From Wrong To Right


Right or wrong, putting it bluntly, it depends a lot on the subjectivity of the person’s vision who’s judging the matter, and yes, I state, ‘judging’. Humans are judgmental creatures who can’t help but judge, if you think you are an open minded person, well, can’t tell you to look more carefully because you can’t see your subconscious, but you will always end up judging. It’s a human law, one cannot proceed without categorizing or judging his or her environment which includes other people properly. Now of course when I speak it in such a factual tone, it does not mean the 100% population because that is the beauty of humanity, take any aspect and you won’t be able to say 100%. Deviations exist, straight lines are made to curve, that’s how a circle is made, and note, a circle is denoted as a symbol to show the correct answer. The mistakes only happen when you become too stern with your opinions and that will end with you colliding into someone else’s straight line, making a cross, and we all know, that’s wrong.


Moving on from the blabber of talk, time to state the real matter at hand. Say, you pick up a bottle of jam in the supermarket, you bring it to the cashier, and he asks you to pay a 50$. You would look at him and say, “I just bought the same bottle two days ago, it was for 10$, how can it raise 40$ more in just 2 days?” The shopkeeper says, “Well it did, take it or leave it.” A normal sane person would put the bottle down and go to another market but since it’s my story and my character, I decide to make him super determined. He does what he does. And now, he has to buy this bottle, and only for 10$. It’s not difficult to assume that an argument will break off, since it’s a supermarket, more customers in line will also get frustrated. Price tag, but for my convenience, there wasn’t. When he would scan the jam, it would count it for 50$. The doors from all side are shut. Everyone is angry at the boy. Before proceeding further let me tell you already, that actually the boy is right, and the bottle is of 10$ only, but imagine yourself in this scenario. Who do you think would be right? I agree, its illogical for the price to go up life that, but would you go against the flow. (Not starting on the flow of fate topic at the moment) A supermarket is a big business, it’s not a fact that corruption is an essential part of the everyday life when in business world, but still, by default the system is considered correct, despite knowing it has flaws, it is correct, and you are wrong, despite actually being right.


Putting the example on hold, let me explain this notion, which like other notions, randomly came to my mind. Right and wrong are considered two parts of the same level. Well I am not denying it, but just adding another complexity to this world of complexities. A notion, where The system to judge is like a ladder. By default, you are and will always be wrong. To be proven correct, you need to prove it. Now before smashing the table and saying the shit that almost every one speaks of is also written here, to ‘prove yourself’, here me out. What I talk about here is on a factual basis. That is, a new concept given to humanity will of course scare them, because new is mysterious and mysterious is scary by its true essence. And thus one would have to go against the odds to introduce something new. But what I speak of is the same thing, but instead, it’s about a different thing.


Say, you tell your father that your girlfriend is a really nice girl, and your father who has had bad experience in his life with girls and had come to a sub conscious conclusions that girls are not nice for long, he would snub at you, maybe even lecture you, and note that he would be sincere, but, he’s doing the right thing, subjectively. And you, who are stating a fact, (that is if it is a fact, because for a girlfriend to be really nice is like a miracle, but it goes both ways so same for boys, no gender racism here, so don’t call the police after me, okay.) is also right, but lack of power and status and experience has made you wrong by default. Unlike concept, facts don’t need an effort to be proven, they just need patience, so, wait, your car will slowly proceed on the line you have sketched, and soon, eventually it will reach the status of the right answer. In this given example, you marry her, she really was nice, and your father gets amazed too and finally concludes that he was wrong. Time, corrected what was right, but due to the way our lives are molded in today’s world are labelled as wrong on default. My example maybe outdated but the concept spreads to all notions in life if one focuses properly.


Back to the supermarket guy. He takes a deep breath, and goes to the manager, the manager also snubs at him and kicks him out. He was labelled as a problem child, and the life moved on, but, he googled the supermarket, saw who created it, took his contact info, and told him about the problem, who then took action, and found, the market staff had rigged the scanners and price tags in such a manner where it would bring them a lot of illegal incentive. Proper action is taken out and the news goes in the newspaper and tv channels. The people who that day glared at the boy, now looked at his pic on tv and paper with aww, for the awesome work he did. His wrong by default was corrected by a small action he took. (Not all things can just be proven easily with time, had the boy not called, the owner someday might have eventually found the rig and take action but, a small move fast forwarded the series of actions)


Long story short, if you stand on the grounds of facts, and you are right, know, you will probably be labelled wrong, but, your time would come, where crosses become ticks, and ticks become circles.

P.S, once again, I failed to explain what I originally wanted to say, but that just means, that my writing is wrong by default right now, and with time, it would take its right shape.

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