I speak with passion and conviction, but my opinion/views on any subject is not written in stone. I am fully aware that my mind is forever re-shaping, re-thinking as I allow new information in. It isn't always an instant realization that transforms my thinking. There are many times where I really have to mull things over, investigate, etc, before I form a new conclusion of how I understand a thing, subject, situation.
I think for the most part that most people are that way, but some are not aware that is what they are doing while mentally progressing.
There are ponderous things in life that I feel I may never sort out, or have a real opinion on. I shouldn't say opinion in that case. I think it would be more accurate to say I'll never have a true understanding of some things.
The older I get, the more I have observed behaviors in society leaning strongly towards not caring about other people's preferences, or beliefs as they are at the time. People will always love to argue with differences, debate theories, etc, but what I'm referring to specifically here is the root of what always made society be a society. There seems to be a strong pull in society towards not caring about society standards as they used to be for so many centuries now. Society is eroding in the art of consideration of others preferences. Respect is taking on a whole new form of meaning.
Today's culture in America, we unfriend people we have known at length with a push of a button. POOF-GONE. That easy to walk away from someone we have outgrown. Ignore, and pretend they don't exist anymore, and no guilt about it. It's normal anymore to be this way. Forget all we have learned of this person(s) life, keeping up with everything they are about as they progress in this world. The intimacy of friendship is dying, and in its wake is a re-birth of a friendship that is so fleeting, roots ignored, that the whole meaning of "ties that bond us together" is going to be a thought of the past at the rate society today is heading.
Only time will tell if it was a needed progression of society, or a social downfall of the likes history has never known before.
When I leave this world, I want to be known for who I am. That may sound selfish, but what I mean by that is that I want everyone that is (was) a part of my life to know 100% how much I celebrate (ed), and care (ed) in my heart of who they are (were) as a person. All their struggles, pain, happiness, success, and failures... all those emotions make (made) them who they are every second of every waking moment, and it matters to me. It does not go unnoticed by me. I care. I'll never forget.
We are coming into a new era of not respecting/celebrating a human life's roots, and ignoring all they stood for. The voice of "The People" is going to have a stagnant meaning in the future, and it saddens me. We're already being "shushed" by a push of a button. The people pushing that button ( with no regard to the other person's path in this life) are (is) society's future. I'm guilty of it myself.
There is no stopping a mass social change though. We either stay with the times, or fall so far behind that we end up convinced we have a mental disorder, because we just can't fit into society anymore.
I don't mean to sound old, and depressing. I'm just being observant, and truthful as I see it today. Who knows what tomorrow will bring me to shape my brain differently...
Only time will tell.
