Do you respect the views and beliefs of others?
What about you? Do you discuss your views freely with others and if others express their opinions, do you respect their views and beliefs?
I consider myself to be a pretty open-minded person. I don’t mind anyone expressing their opinion but I do mind when that person is talking trash about another person or another person’s opinion. That’s not nice, in my opinion, but it seems like it’s happening more and more in recent years, especially when I read some of the blogs I follow.
When I say I notice these things, it means I really notice these things because I live with possibly some of the most narrow-minded individuals in this world. My mom doesn’t believe in most of the things I do. When I tell her all the evidence of climate change, she would make it all about politics. She chased away some of my friends because of her opinions. So I’m often blind and deaf to what’s happening outside my home because I don’t want to know. There’s often so much negativity going on in my home that I’m afraid of hearing more negative things.
Do I discuss my views freely?
Are you kidding me? I wouldn’t dare. Not in my house, anyway, unless I have a lot of free time on my hands and want to hear one of my mom’s lectures. Even outside of my home, I am not sure if I still dare to express my opinions. I feel I’ve been conditioned for so long to just shut my mouth, lower my head, and do my work that my view of things have become almost non-existent.
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