YOUR BAD ATTITUDE WILL COST YOU

 

EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE 

A less attentive woman with a bad attitude holding a cigar on her right hand Credit/Maria Orlova

It was simple. You were wrong. You were intoxicated. And you were driving deep in the night. Relevant authorities stopped you. They were carrying out their routine checks. And they learned that you were drunk. And on top of that, you also had drugs in your car. The police politely requested you to step out of the car. All the police wanted was to perform a procedural routine to determine the level of alcohol in your body. This test was meant for your own safety. The police wanted you to be safe. And your simple work was to cooperate. But you were having none of that. You became upset. And followed it up with a bad attitude. The police disrupted your somewhat beautiful journey. You were just okay driving home deep in the night while drunk. So you are really agitated that the police pulled you over.

And you have developed a bad attitude. You are not listening. You are making very bad decisions right now. You are speaking nasty to the police. You are gradually growing aggressive. And your bad attitude has just escalated. You are telling the police to respect authority. That you are the authority. That you lead an organization somewhere. And you cannot cooperate. You have forgotten that you broke the law. You were pulled over because you were compromising the safety of other road users. The police wanted to know the level of alcohol content in your body. And use that knowledge to determine whether, you will arrive home safely. However, someone has become stubborn. The test would have taken few minutes. But you are not respecting. You are fighting authority. And while at it wasting time too. Yet, the police are at work.

Your bad attitude towards the law is aggravating your situation. You are forcing the police to make difficult decisions. Your tipsy brain has cheated you to believe that you are too big to be questioned. Too big to follow simple instructions. You have really degenerated into a somewhat pathetic person. You are speaking unreasonably. And saying things that are quite embarrassing. For someone who just disclosed that he is also an authority. You are making the work of the police difficult. You are leaving the police with no choice but to apprehend you. You will be locked up for the night. You will spend the night in jail. When all you needed to do was cooperate. You just needed to listen. And follow what you were being told. You were flouting traffic rules. Traffic rules require sober drivers behind cars. You were not sober. You were not rational. You were driving under the influence of alcohol. You were risking not only your life but also the lives of other people.

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Someone needed to remind you. That you are putting your life at risk. However, you are not happy that someone called you out. You are fighting back. You have become aggressive towards the person who is helping you. You have created a scene. At this point, officers have run out of options. They can't tell whether it is alcohol, which is making you foul-mouthed. Or expletives are your lifestyle. The police arrested you to determine if you will calm yourself down. So far, someone is performing terribly. Even in handcuffs, the culprit is still livid. And the atmosphere around you is turning ugly. You are hitting things. You are shouting. You have become arrogant. You have lost your cool. You are behaving  really bad inside the jail. Your level of respect has dropped significantly. The mixture of uncooperativeness, lack of respect for the law or other people, and arrogance have turned you into a horrible person.

The police would have to implement another measure to tame your aggressiveness. Your mistakes have now increased. You will not just be charged for driving under the influence but also unruliness. Your freedom is at stake. What could have ended with a warning or fine. Has now transitioned into a 30-month prison time. You did not need this. You did not have to spend one year and several months in jail. You were wrong. And someone highlighted the wrong you were doing. You needed to remain calm. You needed to listen. You were supposed to cooperate with the police. And do as advised. You could have gotten home that night. But look at what a bad attitude towards justice did to you.

It has cost you your freedom. You will not have your freedom as you know it for the next 30 months. You will be regulated. You will learn the hard way that no one is too big for the law. That no one is too big to be questioned. That arrogance and uncooperativeness were bad choices. That you were playing with wrong people. You cannot tell people who enforce the law, to respect authority. It does not matter what kind of authority you are somewhere. When you breach the law, everything else becomes irrelevant. You don’t tell the police you are also an authority when you are wrong. You don’t develop an attitude when you get called out. You don’t disrespect. You don’t become arrogant. You apologize and allow the law to take its course. You remain calm. And await the verdict.

When you are wrong, it is better to start listening. Remain calm. And forget that you are drunk at the moment. You want to reason with the police. You want to demonstrate to the police that you can be very peaceful. No one is too big to fall. Don't display your bad manners in public. No one should know that you cuss sometimes. No one should know that you are short-tempered. No one should know all those things. Keep these ugly faces to yourself. Focus on the matter at hand. Follow instructions to secure your freedom. Don’t drink and drive. Don’t disrespect the police when they are doing their job. They got to you because you got in their way. You were endangering your own life. And a bad right now is not a good idea. 

A bad attitude will cost you. And you don’t want that. You had plans. You were trying to get somewhere. You wanted to get home. To people that love you. But you don’t get home with a bad attitude. Or by making simple instruction difficult. No one will prevent you from enjoying the things that you love. However, when you are having those things at the wrong time. The law will do its job. And you should not have a problem with that. The law must run its course. It will put you in check. To remind you what is at stake. So don't be big headed and insult the law. Calm yourself down. Don’t create new problems. Don’t become aggressive. Don’t abuse authority. Instead, find your best behavior. Check your attitude. You don’t need 30 months in prison to learn. Watch yourself. Watch your character. You are only one fall away from your last good behavior. This is life. Learn to respect. Respect is free and effortless. Try practicing it today.