Being wrong on the Internet
17:30 28th January 2015
I have given myself a writing commitment and I’m frozen. I spent a whole day thinking about the things I want to write about and there are a lot of them, but I found myself struggling to pick one, not because there are too many good choices but because none of them was absolutely right. For some, I felt I don’t know the subject good enough, and some ideas weren’t clear enough, some ideas were too technical and some were too trivial to be stated. For a lot many ideas I felt I need to work a lot to build an impeccable defense around them. I have a fear of being wrong on internet. I have a fear of being not clear enough or being too clichéd or being too naive. But I’ll go against the fear and express my views, opinions and ideas because not expressing them won’t make them correct, clear or well thought out and that makes me wrong by default. Being wrong on the internet can be called a mistake, but not expressing yourself is also a mistake. So I’ll go ahead and make a different mistake this time.
If you notice the date, it is from January 2015, that time I took a writing commitment to write 3 blog posts per week for 5 weeks. This is before the first blog post, I was sat in the library the whole day and I couldn’t write anything, I went for a walk, wrote this and then wrote the first blog post. I’m glad I took the challenge and completed it. I realized that being wrong isn’t as bad as I expected it to be, people don’t judge you that much, and few of them did, but that too turned out to be fine. If you say things respectfully people are willing to listen and explain to you why do they think you are wrong (if they think so) and in the end both have a better understanding of each other and everyone wins. Here are some of the posts from that time that I liked:
