People are habitual creatures, because habits help us to reduce effort for repetitive, mundane tasks. But it is when a person grows to depart from the love of the truth that they develop an erroneous spirit, and that propensity to do error is what you are finding difficult to deal with.

The majority of people of independence have had their love of truth subdued by complacency, extinguished by crueleness, or have just given up hope; so it pains or disinterests them to think much about the accuracy of their beliefs. Being content in their state of a simpler life, they do not look beyond the rhetoric of the expressions they use, and what's more, that you have battled with, is that they don't like to be exposed for it (because doing so is exposing their nakedness).

Most people think it is kind to not make a person aware of their shamefulness, because equally, most people can't really do it well. It requires grace, compassion and mercy to bring a person into awareness of their shamefulness in a way that can help them to cover themselves with honour. So if you find that they are not appreciating your observations, keep in mind that it probably isn't because you are wrong as they say, but because they don't want to be exposed and brought to see their shame while they are powerless to be clothed in dignity.

So, taking comfort in the knowledge that most people would have turned a blind eye (if they had even seen it), they are emboldened to say that you are not doing what is normal. So, normal and correct are quite often at odds, because of the social conventions on account of the currents flowing in the direction of opposition to truth - and that is because truth demands repentance, but can you tell me honestly who on earth really wants to repent? (I ask, not just rhetorically, but because it is they who have the wholeness of the human nature and it is only such types who can bring paradise on earth).