acquiesce (or, yet another one for the philosophers)

[hiddenmuse]

I had one of the idiot producers ask me why I take the answers I'm given by our company people on a pending cancellation - why do I go along with their reasoning, and not question it. Well, probably because they're the company people and therefore above us, and know more of what's going on and have their reason for doing this. Why should I question it?

It just got me to thinking. When did I become so bull-headed and stubborn with regard to some things, and so meek and submissive on others? What drives me to work away at something (or someone) until it finally gives - but in other situations, why do I just stand back, smile and resign myself to defeat early on?

Was it something in my upbringing? Something in the religious doctrine? Something said to me in school? Something in the water, even? Or, was it just something that I picked up on my own and somehow co-opted as being the "right way to be"?

I don't really know - and it's something that truly bothers me about myself. (One of many things, as you've probably figured out by now.)

Comments

[msboop.livejournal.com]

It sounds like balance to me. Balance somehow gained through experience.

[sigmaration.livejournal.com]

Perhaps something about not questioning authority, and assuming that the people in charge (ie: parents, bosses, police, government) are always doing what's best.