My Opinion, Your Opinion

We are a society of opinionated individuals who try and push their opinions on others. When someone doesn't agree with us, we get bent out of shape and can't understand why they "just don't get it."

However, is our opinion based on what we think others want to hear or does it come from our own experiences and they way we hear. Our teachers or elders clearly knew what they wanted the us to learn to do from their extensive experiences and learnings, but we didn't hear the their wise intent.

Opinion is important. It is a belief or conclusion held with confidence but usually not substantiated by positive knowledge or proof, but it is something in which our views are strong. Some people think that their opinion is the only one that matters and one opinion is usually dominant in newspapers or television news stations because those mediums want to sway an opinion, but we owe it to ourselves to form our own opinions and not be bullied by someone else's view, more so especially people who force their opinions and create fictitious situations all for the sake of filling their coffers eg. the recent Canadian bloggers shams.

Peeps who know me well would attest to my highly opinionated character. My rebuttal to this critique (if any) would be that I would think that I'm very passionate to my causes and to peeps who are dear to me, hence, my desperate attempts to offer support and whatever guidance that I felt would help. However, I've since learnt to take a backseat nowadays. After all, it life's lessons that make them stronger, right?

Frequently, opinions are also disguised as intimidating facts to make us feel bad if we don't go along with a popular stance. Your opinion is just as important as anyone else's. It is your right to be yourself and not let anyone else influence you.

Even this post about opinion is just my opinion. You can agree or disagree. You get to have your own opinion here. No pressure to have mine. If you have been taken-in by my opinions with bible-like concentration and now realized the sham too late, then "too bad, sucker!" lolz

What is your opinion on opinion? Do you think we have suffered a death of many opinions to highlight only popular views?

Here is a compilation on quotes shared that I came across and hence would like to further extend the share to you wonderful peeps:

10 Options Of Opinion

"People do not seem to realize that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character." ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Opinion has caused more trouble on this little earth than plagues or earthquakes"

~Voltaire

"We are so vain that we even care for the opinion of those we don't care for."

~Marie Von Ebner-Eschenbach

"A wise man makes his own decisions, an ignorant man follows public opinion"

~Chinese Proverb

"Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth."

~Marcus Aurelius

"Don't believe your friends when they ask you to be honest with them. All they really want is to be maintained in the good opinion they have of themselves."

~Albert Camus

"Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance."

~Plato

"There is no such thing as public opinion. There is only published opinion."

~Winston Churchill

"Truth always rests with the minority, and the minority is always stronger than the majority, because the minority is generally formed by those who really have an opinion, while the strength of a majority is illusory, formed by the gangs who have no opinion -- and who, therefore, in the next instant (when it is evident that the minority is the stronger) assume its opinion... while truth again reverts to a new minority."

~Soren Kierkegaard

"My psychiatrist told me I was crazy and I said I want a second opinion. He said okay, you're ugly too."

~Rodney Dangerfield