Hypocrisy, and why I dislike it

Hypocrites are a big pet peeve of mine. A hypocrite is a person who engages in the same behaviors he condemns others for. Hypocrites bother me, because they always have someone else to blame, it's like they have no self-discipline. Doing something hypocritical also makes you look extremely self-centered, like "The problem is not with me, the problem is with everyone else". Say someone gets cut off in traffic and they get really mad, but later they cut someone off and don't acknowledge it at all. That is the kind of stuff that makes me angry. If someone does something to you that you don't like, it doesn't entitle you to retaliate. Tell them to stop, or just ignore them, don't poke them back, because you'll start an argument or fight and you will look like the enemy. Just... DON'T DO IT MAN.

I recall one time I was playing video games with some friends of mine. Everyone was having fun until one of my friends goes "OH MY GOD I HATE THE GRENADE LAUNCHER, NO SKILL!" but before he even finished the sentence he started using the grenade launcher himself. So I say "Doesn't that mean you have no skill?" to which he just yells "NO!" followed by a moment of silence "It's.. just... when other people use it against me!". I nearly spoke up, but I held myself back. I wanted to tell him how dumb he sounded. If something is bothering you and causing you to not have fun you shouldn't retaliate by making all of the other people not have fun, they weren't even bothering you, and guess what... YOU LOOK LIKE THE ENEMY!

Does it make sense now? In the off-chance you said no, here's another example. I was in the car with my mom. We were driving somewhere, probably like Wal-mart or something boring. We were driving when out of nowhere this car pulls in front of us and cut her off, causing her to quite angry. So later after she had cooled off and we were on our way back from wherever we went, she went ahead and did the same thing to someone else. We pulled ahead of another car and then just cut right in front of it, and she says "Sorry" in a very unapologetic voice to herself, so I decide to chime in "You know, you are your own worst enemy". "I know" she says back to me. If you get so angry at something that you also do, you are either A) Not allowed to get angry, B) You have to actually feel regret for what you have just done, or C) you're a hypocrite.

Now that you sort of understand hypocrisy, you probably know that you have done it at least once too, my favorite singer states it best when she says "nobody's perfect". Even I'm a huge hypocrite, which makes this whole essay extremely ironic, because it is a big hypocrite complaining about when people are hypocrites. So the next time you're thinking about being a hypocrite, remember this and remember my words, because if you don't you will be the enemy and I will dislike you... and you don't want that, right?

THE END.