I have been facing some problems at work, and honestly it would be quite ostentatious to say that it's a large problem.
I suppose this experience really gave me more insights, the kind that I've been searching for. Yesterday, my boss said I actually play politics, yet personally I don't think of it this way. Rather, I don't realise I was doing it.
To be entirely honest, I do align myself with certain people and like to "save the day". As a result of that, people are unhappy because it makes them look bad and incompetent, and that's where the politics of it all lie. Perhaps unknowingly, I'm already playing the game. Instead of running away from a crisis, I relish in the challenge and potentiality of it - while I see that as a sense of duty and accomplishment, others may see it as a method of grabbing power. It may be so, that inevitably that was essentially what I was achieving anyway.
Regardless, my image is really something left to be desired, brutish and straightforward there are some people who use against me and it really makes it easy to paint a bulls eye on my face. It justifies people's fears and hence results in misunderstandings. Yesterday night, this reflection truly dawned upon me, and explains one of so many things.
I truly was in a child's world, and today I am playing with the adults. But to those who were once against me or are still against me: I make mistakes and tripped but those mistakes can easily be rectified. For those who betrayed my trust, you'll one day play into the hands of someone less forgiving and more vicious about revenge, I will then leave you to the hands of the wolves.