Why should you stand up for yourself?
In my social environment, I have a friend whose vocabulary is consisted of ‘maybe’, ‘I think…’ or ‘I believe.’ Those words are the product of his insecurity. He is eager to express his opinions and feelings about various topics that he knows a bit about. A dangerous trait: Why you are better off without opinions. As a side effect, when someone challenges his ideological view he backs up quickly. That is the reason, why he overflows his expressions with half-committed words like ‘maybe’ and ‘I think’. For example, he said once: ‘Democracy is a shitty system to invest in. Maybe.’ By putting maybe in that, he shows his insecurity and a statement not to challenge him. But, living like this leads to 2 things.
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