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Are the Best Intentions Sometimes Not Enough to Avoid Conflict?
Your best Intentions are great — until they meet reality.
Everybody makes mistakes.
Some are big, some small. Most can be forgiven to one degree or another.
When it comes to our intentions, it’s very easy to screw up. When you have no intent on causing hurt or harm — and then do — that’s a pain point.
To quote playwright Oscar Wilde,
“It is always with the best intentions that the worst work is done.”
More than once, I did something with the best intentions to spare someone’s feelings, to avoid causing them distress or hurt, and/or to lessen anxiety or such. And though my intentions were good — I still caused hurt.
You’ve likely made a similar mistake. As far as I can tell, most people have. You intended to do something — and it completely backfired or came out the wrong way. Rather than not hurting someone — you did.
Does that make you a bad person? No. It just makes you human.
How do your best intentions fail you?
