One of the most annoying things people can do is bash each other for messing up. Doing wrong, sure, yell away, but trying to do good and making an honest mistake? Come on, have some compassion. Honestly, this post is largely due to various fictional universes I’m involved in and my irritation towards how the characters are treating each other, but I think this is something we all need to hear.
“I think intent carries a lot of weight. I know some people dismiss it, but if you’re trying to do something good… We all make mistakes. I mean we all try to do something good, and something goes wrong and it turns out not being good… because we don’t have the foresight. We can’t necessarily see the future. Unexpected consequences come in, so we may end up doing harm when we were trying to do something good. But if we don’t try to do something good, nothing good will ever be accomplished, so I give a lot of credit to the people who are at least trying to make the world a better place, trying to improve things.” –A Talk with George R. R. Martin, presented by the College Historical Society, Trinity College August 2019.
