Neither does yours.
In fact, opinions can be used as a weapon when some folks are so adamant about their opinions that they try to present it as the truth.
When opinions masquerade as truth they become very dangerous.
Any time you turn on the television, log in to Facebook, or Twitter, or Instagram, or Snapchat or any other social media platform you are inundated with people spouting OPINIONS that they are trying to pass off as REALITY.
Because opinions are great "copy". Opinions are great click-bait. Opinions get all dolled up in a fancy font over a pretty picture and get paraded around as something worth believing in but are usually forgotten as soon as they're "shared".
Yet, when someone is so very determined with their opinion it can cause us to doubt ourselves! I know that in my own life, I've fallen for an opinion and only after some personal reflection, realized that the opinion was not true for me.
Before you start believing an outsider's opinion as truth, make certain that opinion IS honestly true for YOU.
Remember when your Aunt Martha kept urging you to try out for the football team, just because she was of the opinion you looked like a linebacker in high school? Do you also remember how you had absolutely NO interest whatsoever in playing football? You told her this, yet, she spent an entire family picnic telling everyone she saw that you SHOULD really play football. She'd grab your arm and haul you over to a relative and say, "Lookit him! He's a linebacker. He's a fool if he doesn't try out for football!" What if you'd believed her opinion and tried out for football and gotten on the team. At best, you'd have hated it. Even worse, you could've gotten hurt by believing Aunt Martha's opinion!
Opinions often have these key words or phrases:
If I were you, I'd . . .
Listen, people . . .
Listen, sheeple . . .
You're an idiot/a fool/making a mistake if you believe . . .
You're an idiot/a fool/making a mistake if you don't (fill in the blank with something that doesn't interest you at all) . . .
An opinion is just that. An opinion.
That's why MY opinion of you, or the world, or what someone else is doing shouldn't matter to anyone else.
All that matters is what is true for you!
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