Big Big Balloon

As cleverly mentioned by Heinrichs, the world of today is glutting in cliche's, despite the fact that its definition has evolved. When a common thought encompasses a throng of people, it's a cliche, or at least that's what I understood. I happen to come across this all the time among family and specially friends.

I have a friend who is great at discussing or in other words arguing. There are things we disagree on and they're normally subjects where knowledge is best when coming from experience. It is because of this that we have different views, because unless we were attached from the hip since being born, then our experiences vary in shape, size, color and luminosity, among other characteristics. Regardless of where our ideas and opinions on the certain topic come from, when it comes to trying to make each other see the other's point it gets a little tricky. Fortunately, this year we both have the help of Jay Heinrichs in Thank You for Arguing.

Different backgrounds and experiences build us up when it comes to harboring and conceiving opinions. Our views of the world are shaped by our upbringing which in part lies on parenting combined with other factors. Incidentally Heinrichs teaches us that in order to reach our goal of convincing someone else of something other than what they already know or think they understand, we are not to worry about or linger on the fact of why they think like that, but rather in knowing how to phrase and word our attack. We must understand that in rhetoric it is about manipulation of the audience, and a shape of said manipulation comes in the form of voice. Not voice as in "his voice is so high pitched!", but voice as in writing process Voice. By doing this, I employ term changing, redefinition, jujitsu and judo.

Recently I have discovered that most of my arguments are based on people's prejudiced over me. Due to their insistence on my behavior and what I think and do, I find it to be a cliche. They loom and make me in their eyes someone they despise. I have learned to control my arrogance and swallow my pride, a task that became very similar to swallowing a full blown balloon to a ping pong ball. The results have been quite favorable however and it has helped me when it comes to arguing with those who know me. By making them think I am no longer the arrogant, condescending being they pinned me to be, out of pure exaggeration from their part, I must add.