Be the Change no. 11

“The only dangerous opinions are the opinions that are not questioned.”

Be the change.

I don’t know why people concern themselves with the opinions of others. Like any of us have it all figured out enough to be in charge of our own lives let alone another’s life. BUT if you want the opinions of others they are out there all the time. Not facts. Not research. Not support. Just opinions. And some of those opinions you can question and others you can’t. If you question those other opinions then you get shut out, shut down, and sent away.

And folks have plenty of opinions to give on the opinions of others as well. Media is filled with soundbite after soundbite of folks giving their opinions on what someone else said. Maybe they’re interpreting what someone else said like we’re all English majors looking at a Shakespearean tragedy or dissecting a Dickinson poem. Nope. We just care an awful lot about the opinions of others. And it is a difficult cycle to break.

The opinions of some folks should matter to you. The people see you every day can give you a rather good sense of where you’re messing up and what you need to fix. BUT even then that is their opinion of who they want you to be in their life. And ultimately you got to figure out your own role in this world. It is scary because how do you know you’re making the right choices? How do you know you are not going to mess this up?

Well, odds are you are just like I do. We all mess up and make the wrong decisions. We just have to learn from those decisions and start making better ones. The only problem with making bad choices is not learning from those choices. In a world where folks carefully script what they show you, it might be difficult to believe they’re all just as lost as you are. They don’t know. They are just hiding the fact that they are a mess. And some folks are better at hiding that than others. And we are all just looking to feel needed.

So worry a lot more about your own opinion of you. If you feel like you suck then doing something to make you feel better. It’s scary BUT you only get this life to work it all out. And you only have today to feel better about who you are. Don’t let other people make you feel like less when you can do that all on your own. Be your own best friend and start helping you feel better? You deserve not to feel like you suck at life. You deserve to be better.

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