Tuesday, November 17, 2009

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Have you ever done something you believed to be right, only to have it backfire? What does this say about the world?
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  1. VedderNovember 17, 2009 at 2:38 PM

    Many times I've done things that I believed was right, but it turned to out bite me in the ass. I find this to happen alot to me at times, I feel as if someone or something is controlling the consequences of my actions. It might sound wierd, but I'm sure theres other people who might agree with me. This seems as if we have no control over our lives, and that some of our fate has been chosen for us.

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  2. GwenNovember 17, 2009 at 7:14 PM

    I have tried to make things right, and it doesn't succeed most of the time. For example, I was working with a group of four people and we had to type up a draft of our writing. Extra credit was to be given to the person who typed it. Being the group leader, I gave it to the person with the lowest grade because I thought that would help him. The next day, he comes to class with nothing typed. I thought that allowing him, instead of the other group members, to type the writing was right of me. However, our group received a zero that day. Doing the right thing isn't always going to have a good outcome. There are people in this world who don't appreciate the good that is offered to them; they just throw it away.

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  3. Ivory LeeNovember 18, 2009 at 2:47 PM

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  4. Ivory LeeNovember 18, 2009 at 3:09 PM

    Like what I did with my exam, when I felt its fine for this exercise problem, but finally I got the answer was wrong. I don’t know why, maybe I just use my intuition to make up my answer. In our lives, we can’t for sure one of the things is right or wrong; our result is not always like what we think. World is like a class, what we can do is trying our best to explore the world. During those fail experiences we can discover the result, and to avoid to make a mistake again.

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  5. karen-zhongNovember 19, 2009 at 7:02 PM

    Yes, This summer, before I went back to China, I helped my friend to buy a digital camera on buy.com because it is much cheaper than in China, and it said the shipping days generally takes 7 business day. So, I made the order and I thought I could get the mail before I went back to China for sure; however, the mail didn't come at the last minute, even I went to China. At last, I had to ask my the other friend to ship to China. And the cost was over double price of the product.

    I think this is a very typical backfire case in my life. So, it tells us that there are still something in the world that out of our control, we can not arrange everything on our hands. There is no perfect beauty in our arrangement. the only one thing that we can not is try our best to fulfill our responsibility, and don't make any regret for our life, that should be another way of perfect beauty.

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  6. AndcliuNovember 19, 2009 at 8:22 PM

    There are alot of times where I've done something that I believed to be right but came out in the end I was wrong. One incident involved fight between two friends when I was still in middle school. I, being immature and dumb, chose a side believing that I was doing the right thing. The outcome? I've gained nothing, lost a friend, and got suspended by the school. What I believed to be right then came out to be wrong. But I've learned a valuable lesson from that mistake and never again will I repeat. People fall and they will pick themselves up. The world is about experiences and how you and I overcome and learn from each and every experience to better and improve our lives.

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  7. raisinsklNovember 19, 2009 at 8:49 PM

    I agreed all of you guys. I definitely have done things I believed to be right, but most of them usually turn out to the backfire. It is because we, as humans, we all think and pursue things differently. However, sometime things/ ideas that one thinks are ideal in particular of projects, school, work, etc), others may or may not agree you. But if one does not have the courage in what they believed, he/she will never find out whether or not things are perfect, and one will remain regretful of his/her decision after they get old; also if it is backfired, then one will learn a lesson in life. It tells us the world is a place existed for humans to attain perfectness.

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  8. AnonymousNovember 20, 2009 at 12:04 AM

    It seem that many things in our lives go by contrary. Like me, I took buses to school every day, so I knew the schedules for the buses coming. I nearly can make sure I can not be late in classes, but nothing is impossible. One time, I waited the buses around half an hour, usually the buses would come within 20mins, but on that day it didn't come. Even though I waited almost half an hour, I did not see any buses, eventually I went to school on foot and was late in classes. This is unexpected in my minds. It makes me know that we can not control or handle all the things as we think and arrange. However, what I can do is think about carefully and prepare for any situation that would happen suddenly. This backfired give me a lesson to learn. It makes me know there is not best, but just better, that is to say, every thing still has space to let me do it perfectly and better.

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  9. Tsegu KahsayNovember 20, 2009 at 2:18 AM

    I don't remember that this has happened to me in recent past, but i have seen people fight because one believes that he/she has done right while to the other person what is right is far different from the other person point of view. For example, a thief was hidden in a church and the police were looking for him. When the police came to the church and the priest was asked if a thief was in that church or not, the priest lied and told the police that the thief was not there, protecting the thief from being caught, later on the police found out that the thief was in the church and the priest paid the consequence. Therefore, as a priest, he has done what he believed is correct, he did not only protected a thief but even lied, so, even though telling a lie and protecting a thief is not right, for the priest it was right protecting a life from being executed.
    This says that the world is not any more like this, it is not like the priest who defends a prisoner who does not need any protection from the very beginning any protection. People nowadays are fully aware about the law suits and are very careful to think what they think is right unless they are as sure as they suppose to be to do it.

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  10. gabrielasedovaNovember 20, 2009 at 2:08 PM

    Since my childhood I had a tendency to stand up for weaker individuals. The ones who did not have enough power to push their point through. That is why there were misunderstood many times and that made me disappointed because it just was not right. When I think back at my middle school times, I picture one event that was very unpleasant for me. The particular classmate, named Adela, does not know about it until today. She was ill very often so had to skip classes many times. We had semester passing exams and she was allowed to take these exams from home. ALL of the students were against it and were claiming that it is not fair ... all but me. I got so angry I stood up a said that they are being ridiculous and told them to be ashamed for themselves for being jealous of a student who already had enough to dealing with a sickness. They looked at me a did not talk to me for a long time because they thought that Adela is only making up stories but anyway. Some time passed and things were getting back to normal. About one year later, Adela became popular because of her father's connection. As a matter of fact he throw a party for her and she invited all of the classmates, but me. I never blamed her for she had no idea about the situation when everyone was against her. This was only a revenge of the anti Adela "leader" back at the time. As for today, we are a really good friends again and talk an skype very often but neither of us mentions any kind of those incidents that happened long time ago. I have no need to explain and she was busy that time helping to organize her party so she probably did not even notice I was not present there.

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  11. kalNovember 20, 2009 at 7:42 PM

    As the saying goes, “no good deed goes unpunished.” If we are truly doing something for someone without any benefit to ourselves, we are usually going against our human nature. I think nature has some kind of balance; an equilibrium of some sort. Just like action and reaction forces, for every good deed that we do we are always sacrificing something else whether we know it or not. Sometimes those sacrifices might not be on our self. For example, last week I wanted to do a good deed so I decided to lend my car to a friend of mine thinking that my sister can drop me off at school. What I did know was that she had an assignment due that day. Therefore she ended up losing points because she turned in her assignment late after dropping me off. Situations like this are not common. Most of the time the sacrifice is of the person that did the favor of that did what they believed was right. However, one way or another nature always finds away to keep its equilibrium.
    (Sorry guys, I hope I made sense it’s just that I’ve been studying physics all day lol.)

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  12. Rebecca^0^November 20, 2009 at 9:43 PM

    Yes, I always did the thing I believed is right; even though most my friends around me said I did wrong. For example, I begin to buy the lotto from last two month. In fact, it’s hard for me win the price. Even though I buy for 2 months, I do not win for the mega number. Most my friends said I lost money because it’s hard for me to win. However, I still keep buying it because I consider I am buying a hope. In fact, it’s hard for the immigration to buy a house in the United States because they needed to restart everything in the United States. For me, I would like to buy it because I would think I could win it in one day and use the money to buy a house. I want to have my own home in the United States.
    In fact, in the world, most people have different dreams. Sometimes we could not reach our goal right away. Furthermore, I think we should live with a hope. Like the famous saying “Tomorrow is another day”.

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  13. J. KongNovember 20, 2009 at 11:03 PM

    the world certainly does wonders when we intend to do the right thing, but at times favorable end results don't go our way. What I believe it means about our world is that we can make good choices, smart choices, or keen sound judgment for the greater good, but the end result is beyond our control. I believe fate does interesting things in our lives.

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  14. JosephNovember 20, 2009 at 11:37 PM

    I usually do the things that I think that is right, but sometimes I realize the things that I do are wrong after I do the things. It is because of that I do not perfectly know and judge what is right and wrong. I think human can not do those perfectly without any mistake. As we grow up, we experience many things and from the experiences we leared many things and our discrimination improves. For example, I thought that it was right to judge and change for myself the people which did wrong things. When I saw a person did wrong thing I pointed out his fault and force him to change his acts. However I realized that my thoughts and behaviors were wrong after having troubles with the person.

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  15. Darius ChanNovember 24, 2009 at 7:58 PM

    This happen to me before. Sometimes, I think I make a good decision of my daily plan, but the result is not what I think. I think everything cannot be perfect, although you are well planning for it. I thought of this question before and I found out the answer. I'm not sure is it right. The reason is I cannot predict what will happen in the next minute. However, I only can prevent or avoid what will happen and not stop it happen. After I found out this answer, I try my best to prevent every mistake may happen in my plan. Guess what? It really work, but sometimes still I have to change my plan. In my point of view, if there is a problem in front of me, I think I should solve it, but sometimes, changing can be a good result also.

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  16. prettyleungNovember 30, 2009 at 2:01 AM

    I always did something which i believed it was right indeed. However the results never turns that good. I understand every circumstances are different by different people. They won;t have the same opinion ad also point of view. some think this was good but some say don't. therefore, i think we should learn how to put inside people shoes instead of thinking rights for them.

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