They're certainly entitled to think that, and they're entitled to full respect for their opinions... but before I can live with other folks I've got to live with myself. The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.
~Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird, Chapter 11, spoken by the character Atticus
Every single one of us has an opinion about almost everything! Part of life is going through experiences and gaining knowledge which forms what we think and how we feel. Opinions are important. They shape our journey from who we surround ourselves with to what professions we go in. We have to be careful though with our opinions. It's quite easy to feel so strong about something that it can become easy to stomp on someone else's ideas just because they have a different point of view. We might feel like arguing until someone relents (and probably not us) but who is really right in these situations? The answer would be all of us. See, opinions are just that ~ how we feel. No one can tell us that how we feel is good or bad, it's how we see the world. We may not always agree with other people and that's okay. People may not always agree with us and that needs to be okay too! In a world where so many people think it's normal to rip each other apart for feeling a different way, let us all try to understand each other a little bit more and have some civil conversations. It just might lead to new understandings!
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