wrote an article on Smaggle many, many moons ago that I deleted quite recently. It was about how everyone thought I was a feminist and I wasn’t sure I agreed. I definitely supported the concept and ideals of feminism (obviously), I just didn’t really relate to the word ‘feminist’. Back then it was still a rather polarising word and we didn’t have Benedict Cumberbatch wandering around in hot t-shirts teaching us what feminism looked like. You know what? I was dead bloody wrong. I am a feminist, I always have been and I always will be. Back then I just didn’t really understand the word or what it truly represented. I was wrong and I take it back. I am a feminist.
The reason why I am writing this is because I want to give you permission to be wrong, in case you thought you weren’t allowed to be. Admitting you’re wrong is really hard but it’s totally necessary if you want to function as a decent adult human. Writing about how I thought I wasn’t a feminist is pretty embarrassing but having people remember that article or refer back to it, assuming that’s the way I still feel is even more embarrassing. Being wrong is actually quite brilliant because it means you learned something you didn’t know before and you changed your beliefs to accommodate this new information. It’s just about the smartest thing a person can do.
I had a lady get quite grumpy with me at the supermarket a few weeks ago for taking a trolley through the self-serve checkout. When she complained to the store manager, he informed her that you are actually allowed to take trolleys through the self-serve check out. Once she was given this information, she continued to argue with him, telling him he was was wrong. People are terrified of looking stupid so when this woman was backed into a corner, she was going to fight her way out with incorrect assumptions, even if it killed her. Even after she was told by the store manager that she was wrong. Yes, she looked like a dickhead for making up rules but she looked like an even bigger dickhead by digging her heels in and refusing to admit she was wrong.
You’re allowed to be wrong and everyone will be wrong about something at some point in their life. Own it, admit it and learn from it.
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Have you ever been really wrong about something? Are you okay with admitting fault?
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