Few days ago I didn't agree with this. I saw it and I wanted to use it for a contest entry
But the fact that I didn't agree with your views made me procrastinate
this evening, I decided to come again and read through, probably to be proven wrong
It was timely I must confess
This is because there was someone in my inbox asking me to do something and I was angry about it
few minutes ago I would have acted cool and let it slide
But since I was digesting each Paragraph of this post while responding to that message, I knew I didn't have to act cool if I wasn't feeling cool about what he did
So I gave it to him in plain white and black, how I felt and the feeling was different
We really do not have to hide the negative emotions that emanates from us
We need to accept and express them if need be.
Thank you very much for these thoughts, it saved my ass this evening.
I appreciate your comment a lot. Thank you. First, I think it is really important and good to have a dialogue when we have a different point of view. That's how we learn. So, if you had told me a few days ago that you disagreed with me and why, I would have liked to hear about it, even if it can sometimes be challenging to hear criticism.
However, that brings me to my second point, which is that reading/hearing views different from our own helps us to understand and shape our own perspectives. Sometimes, I have found that the reason someone's viewpoint irritates me is because it challenges me in a way I need to be challenged. Other times, I just disagree, of course.
I am glad that you were able to experience your negative emotions and stand up for yourself. I believe that it is always important to acknowledge to ourselves how we feel -- positive or negative. It is not always necessary to act on these feelings. Sometimes, we can feel angry or sad privately and then decide to take some action and other times, we might decide that just acknowledging our feelings in our minds or in writing might be enough.
I think when we realize that we have a right to our feelings and that how we respond is a choice, we start to make peace with ourselves and with the world. At the same time, I recognize that some people are in bad situations and may only be able to acknowledge their own feelings inside their own minds for now. That is sad, but it's a start -- realizing that, in our minds, at least, we are free.
Thank you for your thought-provoking comment. Please feel free to let me know in the future if you disagree with me, even if you continue to disagree. Some people get upset about that sort of thing. As long as people are constructive and not too harsh, I like the food for thought.
(I have been writing essay length comments all day. Time for some exercises in being less verbose!)
It's weird, but I don't generally find that others' viewpoints irritate me too much, even when they are completely opposite to my own. Especially when they are opposite of my own. I LOVE being challenged in general. I think there are times when I might get annoyed or bothered, like if someone's opinion happened to affect an outcome I was trying to achieve. But I think overall, over time, it's just fewer and further between that I actually get annoyed or bothered.
And for me, at least, I honestly believe that it has come from the very basic understanding that I really actually know nothing, in the end. And truth tends to change form over time. And that has only come from discovering that what I used to know, or think I knew, ended up being rather incomplete and incorrect after all. So, the lesson from that is: what I think I know now, could very well be something I discover later that I was quite incorrect about it, or incomplete about it. It has happened enough in the past, where I was quite sold on an idea, only to discover that the idea itself was ultimately incomplete or flawed in some way. Religion being the first of many flawed belief systems I subscribed to, where the power to obtain and achieve and manifest somehow existed OUTSIDE of myself, rather than within.
So the lesson is, if I fully throw myself at something I fully believe in, it does not make that thing intrinsically more true. It just makes my feeling about it stronger. And perhaps I might then manifest a reality around it to make it more true for me. But with more evolution, even that truth might find itself slightly obsolete over time.