In the passage “A Short Essay On Being” by Jenny Boully, the author talks about her life and experiences being a woman from Thailand. The common theme in this passage is how Jenny thanks people for correcting her. The first time someone corrects her is when she visits a friend from graduate school in Austin. She corrects Jenny when Jenny tells her she wants to make her “pot thai”. Then her friend tells her it’s “pad thai” and not “pot thai”. You can tell Jenny was a little upset when she says, “And even though she knew I was Thai and even through she knew I was born in Thailand and had been back numerous times and even though she knew that my mother raised me to speak Thai and still spoke to me in Thai, I thanked her for correcting me.”  Jenny explains how it’s the Thai way to not to correct someone, instead just be the bigger man and say thank you. “You move about quietly…you don’t show others their errors- you let them eventually come to learn the errors of their ways and have them come to you for forgiveness later.” I agree with Jenny because I believe in the same thing and tend to do the same thing to my friends and even family. 

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