When the audience is preconceived...

When the audience is preconceived, especially at a meeting where you happen to have fewer diplomas or titles to your name, or you’re perhaps the youngest and expected to know less, you’ll hardly disagree with a view, form a factual judgement or even joke about anything without someone choosing to be offended, or without someone taking the whole story and tailor it to fit a fixed belief.

Some will say you think you’re intelligent, but that shouldn’t bother you because that’s natural of envious people, and it’s mostly an implicit affirmation of what they think you’re. Others may even say you’re just trying to be relevant, but who doesn’t want to matter? Tell me, who wants to be in this world waiting to breathe your last and be trashed like a dead chicken? Isn’t a chicken’s funeral not what happens when an irrelevant person dies?

Seriously, except for genuinely close people, and I mean the ones that love you for God’s sake, the rest will not even grieve over your demise, and you’ll more than likely go to hell for having lived for nothing. If you ask me, you are good to go as long as you maintain good manners during an argument, especially when the subject matter has no clear-cut evidence. If the meeting or audience ignore all the facts and act like the shoe is theirs, then let them wear it - As-salamu alaykum!