Changing My Mind

Can you recall an occasion on which you changed your mind about something because of the evidence offered in discussion or in print?

Yes, when I was in high school I was my class president. This put me up to making lots of decisions, and most of them were crucial. I remember one in particular that I changed my mind a couple of times on. The decision of mine that my peers argued with me until I changed was who I was going to let say our farewell. I wanted my good friend Guy Bragg to do it, because I knew he was emotional and would probably get everyone to cry. My peers did not want that, they wanted to go out laughing. They wanted one of our class clowns to do it so we wouldn't shed a tear. Their argument was we already had a rough enough year with a student who committed suicide, and a couple of long time students moving or dropping out. After days of arguments, I finally gave in. I let the student class pick the kid they wanted and everyone was happy. Then came the day of the graduation and everyone was nervous. I had it all running smoothly until the class clown went to the podium, he thought he would try to make it touching instead of funny and talked about one of our classmates that recently commit ed suicide. It was horrible, he made everyone cry and a-lot of people were upset. I wish I would not of let my class mates talk me out of my original plain, but I ended up making people get away from the tears when I gave out the gag gifts.