Out of all of the mostconfronting ideas that this election has brought to light for me personally isone that I did not expect. I am a very strongly opinionated person, to a fault,and as a result I find it extraordinarily difficult to empathise with otherswho posses contrasting opinions, failing to comprehend that there is a thinkingoutside of my own, right or wrong, that anyone could possibly, really and honestly feel that way. I have now been forced to face the notionthat as adamantly as I feel about a subject, as sure of my correctness I am, astruly positive I may be that I am in fact some how morally and intellectuallysuperior to those who disagree with me, as much as I insult them and call themnames belittling their intelligence, they might feel just the same about me. Theyare too so unmovably sure of their ideas. For whatever reason, be it apersonnel experience or the grapevine, they think differently to me.
Their headspace is notjust like mine.
They are not shirkingaway from how they really feel and know to be just to serve some minor purpose(like my irritation), that is whatthey really believe.
And there is no one tosay who is in the right. That is humbling. I may not be able to begin to comprehend the notions thatequate to their thinking (a problem im sure they face vice versa) but I mustrespect that they do feel that way that they are no more undeniably in thewrong (or right) as I.
Now I am also confronted unexpectedly withthe idea that there is no absolute right or wrong, in anything, not justpolitics. No opinion, no answer to any question, no matter who posses it orproposed it, is completely with out a doubt, 100% correct. There is no true force that has theright answer written on the back of a palm card waiting for some one to ringthe buzzer, to buy the right vowel or propose the perfect consonant. There is no grand prize at the end ofthe day accept for your own pride in your principals.
Though some people areundoubtedly racist and ignorant, I must comprehend that they feel that way, seethat that are people who really harbour those thoughts, and I must not think meundeniably right, even if no adequate thought or evidence to the contrary canbe provided, no matter who was voted president and who history hails, whosociety looks down on; there is no absolute right or wrong, no certain truthanything.
Not in anyway do I valueless my own Ideas, or doubt them, I am still passionately firm in my personnelbeliefs and interpretations of the world around me. I now have a more open mindto the idea that other peoples cogs turn in different directions, at leastacknowledging, if nothing more, that my thought process and personnelexperiences are not mutual to all or many for that matter. No matter how manyothers may or may not share my opinion, out side of maths class, there is noundeniably correct answer to any question.
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