Mercy! Mercy! That Dang Nabed PERCY!

Critique

Critique

One of the things you get on WDC are critiques and from time you get one that sets a few sparks of ire flying. After a while however, insensitive critiques begin to flow like water off a ducks back. I am saying this because what we learn in this regard here on WDC translates wonderfully into life. For example.

At the flying field I am the newbie and easily the most inept builder and flyer in the club. I am also slow to learn and the members activated a rule recently, which has been long overlooked, of having an airplane inspected by an uninterested member before allowing it to be flow. Now it doesn’t require much latent paranoia to realize this is aimed at me… and you know what? I am glad they are doing it because I get plenty of attention I don’t otherwise get and lots of ideas I hadn’t considered. It is better to swallow a little pride than wreck an airplane.

Before becoming a member of WDC I might have told one member in particular to “F” Off, because he sometimes rubs me the wrong way. This guy, however, is also one of the most anal, smart and experienced. After getting past the emotional angst I always take away something from our exchanges. This reminds me of a great lesson I learned in the Military.

I used to think that if I didn’t like somebody then everything they stood for was BS. Then I discovered that often many things my friends told me were BS. The realization was that often those who abrade against your personality are harbingers of truth and those who want to be pleasant are not totally honest. I know it sounds obvious but we are all human and the “Love me love my dog,” adage comes too often to mind with a mutter under the breath.