07 September 2005

Opinions of Others

It's so hard to have the right opinion about people, even if you're literally joined at the hip to someone, you can never understand them completely because you haven't had the exactly the same experiences and thoughts as them. You only see most people you know for a few hours a day, you have no idea what they do the rest of the time. How can you judge anyones actions? unless you've seen their whole life through their eyes, you can't. I never 'listen' to anything people say about others or themselves, my opinion is generally made up purely by the time i've spent with them, their actions, their words. it is never complete or exact. Just patterns of things i notice about them. I would never question something they did out of character. because the character in my head is only of what i have seen of them and not of their whole life. It really annoys me when someone dislikes someone they've never even met. their opinion is entirely based on a few comments they heard about this person. Whats worse is everyone does it, most without even knowing. Murderer, Rapist, Paedophile, people instantly dislike those with these word next to their name. You've never met them, you don't even know if they exist, you don't know if they really did anything, you don't know why they did it if they did. I'm not saying all these people aren't bad, i'm just saying you shouldn't judge them untill you know for sure. Hating people you'll never meet achieves nothing, which is the same as thinking nothing about them, except thinking nothing requires less effort.