An opinion is ones perception of an event, an occurrence, a person, etc. For the longest time, I have had this notion of having no opinion or weak opinion of things around. My opinion, the weak ones at least, get largely formed by the material i read or view about an event. People depending on their preferences loosely fit into certain categories like people i like, dislike, vaguely know, etc and then the way they behave over time makes them belong to a category more concretely or move to a different category.To me having a strong opinion about things has always had a binding to inflexibility about thinking about the subject. Having a weak opinion or none, makes you mouldable, gives you the ability to change opinions, adapt, be able to comprehend different viewpoints.
However what I have lately started to feel is that not having a strong or at least a well formed opinion is a way of remaining non committed about an issue or the way you feel about someone. I also feel that having an opinion can still allow you to be open minded about an issue. You can still be able to comprehend and understand more viewpoints to the issue apart from having your own.
The importance of having an opinion about things is that our strongest contribution as people is what we think. The opinion is like a package, an output from the brain, a judgement or an idea to the input that has been provided to it by our senses from the world around us. To not form an opinion, is to forgo ones ability to think about it. Any change one can bring about has to stem from a strong opinion. The lack of an opinion would just result in a half hearted non committed jab at doing something. Also the lack of an opinion makes one open to influence of someone else's viewpoint. Now to be able to comprehend and understand someone else's point of view is essential in both empathizing with someone as well as getting a broader outlook about something. But there is a need to be able to sift through and be able to choose what is valid and whats invalid about the viewpoint. A viewpoint/ an opinion like everything else related to the human mind is open to being biased by the beliefs and emotions of the person forming it. One needs to throw the thought against the wall of ones beliefs and see how it bounces back. If you do not do this, then you are as good as having no opinion at all.
So I guess my actual emphasis is on forming an individual opinion about things and that being important. Taking a corollary from "if you are going nowhere, any road will take you there" , if you dont have an opinion any opinion is fine works for a while. But there is no strong foundation to it. Adapting is important, but not at the cost of losing individualism....not at the cost of becoming another brick in the wall.
i feel that unless i make up my own mind about things, i will always be a sum of the thoughts around me, at times conflicted, at times focussed but never me. i will always be someone elses version of me. somehow thats not ok with me anymore.
So what do you think about what i have to say? you have an opinion??...thats what the comment section is for:)
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hmm ..opinions tend to be of emotional nature than facts. So if a person has "no opinions or weak opinions" it can mean that you really dont care about tht subject, or find it uninteresting to waste your time thinking about it not being non-commited to issue but its just not imporatnt having an opinion on THAT matter. So, Do you really need to form opinions all the time? That said, i have always had strong/some opinion if the issue at hand involved me in some way. Do you agree?
opinions can be emotional in nature but can also be based on facts...so it is more a personal thing...its true half the time we dont form opinions coz the issue may be uninteresting/unrelated....something on the lines that we have a 120 degree vision but subconsciously tend to ignore most of what we see...i guess going into the yin yan thing...for light to exist there must be darkness....and so on....for u to like or hate something, be for or against an issue u need to have an opinion....but yea i do buy the thing....that sometimes u choose not to choose....after all if u r having a cheese pizza...a pizza is a pizza is a pizza....fills the stomach and gets u through a meal....thats not having an opinion...on the other hand....a good cheese pizza(and ur definition of it may vary) has cheese that melts into ur muth....has soft bread and is best eaten hot.....thats having an opinion(writing this is making me hungry).....so yea i agree
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