We all have different personalities and ways of thinking, making us humans. Our traits, and character, are all of what makes the difference. Sometimes something you feel you can do best is what someone else would find most difficult to do. Yet that doesn’t mean such a person doesn’t have any specialty. Rather they are still in a position to do better in other ways.
For example, someone's strength might be someone else's weakness. My brother loves to code a lot, he has been passionate about anything related to software and hardware. He loves to research and find out how to repair and replace things. This is something he has found to be his strength.
But on my end, I can't even withstand a day of coding explanations, not to talk of getting into the actual coding itself. I have been the type that doesn't even want things to get damaged, not to talk of making repairs to that thing. So I can say I am the opposite of his area of strength.
We also have our weaknesses. Weakness in the sense that there are times when we just have to do something out of love and people would take it for granted thinking we are fools or don't know what we are doing. To some people it might be their act of kindness people would take advantage of, thinking they are wasteful and ignorant of the deeds they put forward.
Some people, they trust easily, and people who realize this attitude in them would want to take advantage of it and betray their trust. Since they know such a person would still trust them again no matter what. Some are so loyal and people would see it as their weak point and take advantage of it. And many more traits too.
One aspect I found to be my area of weakness is that I joke too much. At some point, I had to start learning to limit the way I joke and relate with people. I only joke when necessary and only with people I find out they won't see me as a fool out of a joke.
Joking and being funny is something normal, but at some point, I realize people won't even want to know the difference between me being serious and being funny anymore. Everything I say or every action I take looks like play to them. They hardly take my words seriously or meaningfully. Even when we have a serious discussion, if I am about to contribute people would start laughing already before I say anything.
There was a time in my college days when my classmates loved to be around me because of the way I made them laugh. I knew that was something I do without stress. But at some point when I began to realize that it was already turning to something else I had to stop and caution myself.
During those times when it got to the peak of it, whenever I had conversations with people I realized they would start hitting me and beating me out of fun. Oooh. This is something I tried to stop over time, not until a time when my friend almost got me blind because of it. From that time onwards I started cautioning myself and making sure I limit my level of jokes with people.
This is my response to the HIVE LEARNERS weekly prompt in hive learners community for the Week 127 Edition 1 and the topic to be discussed is A WEAK POINT
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You are right, we are wired differently, someone's weakness is someone's strength, it's what makes us human. That imperfection is what makes us strive to become the best. Imagine how the world would have been if everyone of us is perfect... Humility might be lost. Pride maybe be on the increase. We may even forget that we are mere dust.
Guy, I don't like people who make so much jokes o. Not that I am offended with jokes, reasonable jokes are okay but joke that go to extreme, even talking about my challenges are what I can't take
I actually don't see joking too much as a weak point. But then, if misused, it is really bad. I'm glad that you have find a way to reduce it.