Have You Insulted Anyone's Intelligence Lately, By Trying To Help?

Plenty of people have told me things I already know, trying to help. Why would that offend me or anyone?

Sad. The world would be a far poorer place if we were all so concerned with the possibility of giving insult to fools, that we failed to share what wisdom we have with each other. Truth shared is no insult to the wise - or to those who wish to become wise. It is only insult to the person so smug and vain that your lack of knowledge about them offends them.

A person who needs to believe that everyone around them should automatically know the contents of their impressive mind, and never once deign to "insult their intelligence" by telling them something they know already...what the hell attitude is that? I think it must be a sign of egotism compounded by insecurity: All Must Recognize My Knowledge By Not Attempting To Give Me More Of It!

Don't feel bad, when you in all decency and humility attempt to offer help, and someone takes it as an insult. It ain't your fault. If you tighten up and fail to share what you know, purely out of the fear of ruffling the mental feathers of a few uppity peacocks - so many people who need what you have to offer would go without.

And if on the other hand, you are a person who takes offense over people's lack of knowledge of yourself - who are you? Who are you, that we should know as well as you what you do and do not know? What if God forbid, the day came when someone around you knew something you didn't know? Something you needed to know. Something they would gladly have told you on a moment's impulse! Except, you kill that impulse every day, by taking offense at what you consider to be an insult.

Where is the insult? If you know so much more than the rest of us, why not be secure in that? Have pity on your inferiors. Don't excoriate them for doing what the rest of we mortals do amongst ourselves.

We try to share what we know, and help each other.

Never stop doing that.