DO YOUR OPINIONS MATTER

Communication is mainstream these days and having opinions is alright most of the time. Although opinions might seem important to you, but they can be worthless depending on the topic and situation.

According to Bertrand Russel,

“The opinions that are held with passion are always those for which no good ground exists; indeed the passion is the measure of the holders lack of rational conviction. Opinions in politics and religion are almost always held passionately.”

Here are few reasons why you should keep yourself from forming baseless opinions.

   Don't try to convince me to change my mind it's not worth it. You don't have the depth to anticipate the distant future when You and I will be long gone and the earth will be swallowed  by giant red sun, so whatever atrocity you think I am committing, it will be forgotten very soon, at least compared to the vast scales of time, in which this universe is travelling. Then to bother changing my mind is such a foolish idea and in its core, it's just narcissistic. Don't be narcissistic, it's not worth it, somebody will break your front teeth to teach you a lesson and that means you might develop a lisp and then giving speeches on how your ways are right will be hysterical. Nobody wants to get laughs on the expense of their self esteem, neither should you wish for it.

The very idea that my opinion is the right one is smug, senile and eccentrically dumb way of linear thinking at best. I get that, some people have urges to form opinions with ulterior motives and they are well aware of their fecal mindset. That is understandable given that we live in a material world and deception gets things done but to think that others needs to find your stray ramblings precious is absolute rubbish.

Your own experience of the life is like a high frame/second great resolution video but when it comes to observing other people lives, you don't have anything more than a bunch of screenshots. They are good for assessing a little bit but their life decisions will be full of chaos if they ignore their massive stream of information about their own life and start to rely on your limited set of information. Don't put them in jeopardy at the expense of you hollow satisfaction, just don't be a prick.

You feel like you have the need to talk, express and share your wisdom. Any kerfuffle caused by your opinions does not bother you.

You just want to create something arbitrary in peoples' minds, something never stopping and always poking and nudging their nerves from inside. You want to put voices in peoples' heads so to alter their ways. You feel powerful when people even after discarding your opinion seem influenced by it. If you think about it, you're also defined by peoples' opinion and it hurts when you finally realize it so stop forcing your opinions on other people.

We see it all around, teaming up with likewise opinionated and trying to snub the pushovers even more. Workplaces, Schools and homes, everywhere people with strong opinions have their way. Just rectify this situation by asking before assuming anything about anyone. 

Somehow, somewhere in life we get what we deserve, all we can do is make sure that we can say without flinching an eye that we've incurred no harm to anyone. That way, some fatalities would surely reflect off of you.