Opinions are free but not all are worth listening to.
Simon Cowell, Opinionated. Photo from calvinayre.com
An acquaintance and I were nearing the parking area of a mall. The parking is a vast open space of compacted cars in a busy day. We went around through first corner but couldn’t find a spot for the car. The driver drove another round in the same corner two more times but still, we found no vacancy.
“Why don’t we try over there?” I told him. We were driving around the same loop when there are more possible parking spaces if we stretched further the parking lot. He refused, saying it’s the same over there.
How’d you know, we haven’t been there yet?!! I yelled at him in my thoughts. We went around again until he succumbed and drove further inside the parking. I was right, there was vacant slot for the car’s parking over there.
Let’s not miss the important thing – I was right! Nah, but even though I knew I was right I tried not to argue. Winning over an argument will only make the driver have a negative attitude towards me. However, if there’s a pill for open-mindedness I’ll sponsor him supply for a year.
It is one of the many situations I encounter people verbalizing their opinions based on nothing. Situations change, so you cannot assert that you know what’s there or you know what’s happening like you’re the oracle expert. Opinions are good, but at least base it on something.
Take this example: you bought a new acoustic guitar and someone says it won’t last a week with you. That is a stupid opinion because (a) you don’t really know how long it will last, (b) you criticized, intentionally or unintentionally, the owner – that he can’t take care of his possessions especially a guitar he loved or loved to learn and (c) the opinionated person is being superlative and negative.
If your opinion is neither constructive nor good in nature, just don’t say it at all. It’ll make the other person feel worse. Also, it is better to say that the guitar won’t last a week because you had the same brand and the wood used is shabby, ask if he can still exchange it to other guitar brands. It sounds better because then the opinion is based on personal experience. Opinions with basis are the ones with substance.
What opinions based on nothing have you received?
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this is food for thought….especially to those with shallow opinions that have little constructive meaning.
Hear, hear…now try telling my kids that (Phillipa)
Opinions are like a..holes, everyone’s got one… That’s my opinion 🙂
agree 🙂
Sometimes things are best unsaid. Our spouse leaves the light on in the closet. Do you turn it off and then tell them, or just turn it off?
How do you know EVERYONE has one grandfathersky? Have you met everyone? Your opinion is based on an assumption, and you know what they say about assumptions? If you assume, you will make and ASS out of U and ME….
Only joking 😉 have a good day.
Sometimes comments (or opinions) aren’t necessarily meant to constructive or good in nature – they’re meant to be humorous or to lighten a situation or to bridge the gap when there’s not much else to say. Sometimes they may come out with a negative tone, but really they (and the person saying them) are better off being judged based on intent.
Opinions are others ideas of which we have the choice to buy into… or not…! Playing to the peanut gallery instead of trusting and believing in ourselves. Definitely in charge of our own lives when we have learned to just opt out and let it all roll off !
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Cat
Greetings ~ as a single mom opinions that escape from mouths fly at you from every direction. Everyone is an expert as well as a critic and the ones that run their mouths the most, don’t even have kids! Thanks for sharing! ~ SaassyT
Someone once told me that my opinion is the only one that matters, but that was just his opinion, so I didn’t listen.
Pride and ego!
(a few of my favorite things 😉
People seem to have an entitlement attitude to saying stuff and just assuming others will think they are right, even if they are out in left field.
I give you credit, you said much nicer what I could not say nicely at all.
One of the hardest lessons I learned was to ask three questions and if any of them were “no”, keep my mouth shut.
Is it true?
Is it kind?
Is it necessary?
Keep the politeness,
Dave