A Healthy Compromise

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Seriously, "compromise" is a word that has been dominating my everyday's life ever since I came to Taiwan. It's indeed a simple but profound word. In my opinion, the level of how profound it is to us, depends on our know-how to manage our ego. The better you hold down your ego, the higher compromise level you can get into.


With the shifted trait domination that currently happening to me, I find that compromising is an oh-not-as-hard-as-before thing to do. Although sometimes I can feel that my ego-slash-stubborn-sensitivity is seething to overtake my intention to compromise, but well...I can say that I'm getting good at it. I wouldn't say that I've mastering the art of compromising, because I know that I still need to work hard to be able to do so. But yeah...now I can "formulate" a bunch of "secret ingredients" to secure "a healthy compromise". 


Wait, a "HEALTHY COMPROMISE"? Yeah. Because IMHO, there's a MALIGNANT COMPROMISE. Just like "cancer" which is also known as malignant tumor, a malignant compromise can stress out the particular person who is trying to compromise the person(s)/situation he/she's currently facing. Why a compromise can turn out to be malignant? Well, there are a lot of possibilities and X factors. But mostly because it doesn't ended nor wrapped up nicely, in terms of the particular person still feeling burdensome after the process of compromising ended. Let's conclude that in order to do a "healthy compromise", we have to make sure that both parties are in a quite similar situation; satisfied.


All in all, do you want to know my "secret ingredients" to make a "healthy compromise"? I wouldn't care if you say "no" because I'm just going to blurt it out =p. Okay, here they are: 
1. 40% patience
2. 10% positive attitude
3. 10% self-reflection
4. 20% ability to highlight other's kindness/good traits
5. 20% conscience to maintain good relationship(s) with other(s)


I guess I'm not going to explain further regarding to those 5 points. Why bother calling it SECRET if it's meant to be thoroughly REVEALED? Haha~