{"id":120,"date":"2005-09-16T18:21:00","date_gmt":"2005-09-16T18:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/example.com\/?p=120"},"modified":"2005-09-16T18:21:00","modified_gmt":"2005-09-16T18:21:00","slug":"opinionated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/statueofpuberty.com\/sp\/2005\/09\/16\/opinionated\/","title":{"rendered":"Opinionated?"},"content":{"rendered":"

You are young, my son, and, as the years go by, time will change and even reverse many of your present opinions. Refrain therefore awhile from setting yourself up as a judge of the highest matters.<\/span> \u2013 Plato<\/p>\n

Says a lot doesn\u2019t it?<\/p>\n

Day in and day out, we ply at the helm of judging events and entities around us. We are judgmental to the classic point of hurting our fellow herdsmen, going on to break otherwise perfect relationships. And when the cloud clears over time, we realize that the effort and action was pointless.<\/p>\n

We all have our flaws, our innumerable, (perhaps) countless chunks of imperfection. One of them is our astute ability to be-right ourselves. We often showcase our incandescent ability to think and act for ourselves (which is good, but comes) at the expense of the rest of the living world (or maybe some, who mean the world to us).<\/p>\n

\u201cI am right\u201d It\u2019s like we\u2019ve been programmed to work towards this statement.<\/p>\n

The ability to not think beyond our own perception and understanding is one of the primary reasons for relationships to fall and fail. And it\u2019s not just the battle of opposite sexes (which we\u2019re all subject to, or will do during our lifetime), but also the not-so-talked-about but nevertheless common associations we have with our friends, family and close acquaintances.<\/p>\n

If ever there was a classic example to showcase on relationship breakers, we humans would stand in as the best of plausible exponents.<\/p>\n

There\u2019s a thin line between having an opinion and enforcing your belief. We seldom realize when and how we cross that line.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

You are young, my son, and, as the years go by, time will change and even reverse many of your present opinions. Refrain therefore awhile from setting yourself up as a judge of the highest matters. \u2013 Plato Says a lot doesn\u2019t it? Day in and day out, we ply at the helm of judging events and entities around us. We are judgmental to the classic point of hurting our fellow herdsmen, going on to break otherwise perfect relationships. And when the cloud clears over time, we realize that the effort and action was pointless. We all have our flaws, our innumerable, (perhaps) countless chunks of imperfection. One of them is our astute ability to be-right ourselves. We often showcase our incandescent ability to think and act for ourselves (which is good, but comes) at the expense of the rest of the living world (or maybe some, who mean the world to us). \u201cI am right\u201d It\u2019s like we\u2019ve been programmed to work towards this statement. The ability to not think beyond our own perception and understanding is one of the primary reasons for relationships to fall and fail. And it\u2019s not just the battle of opposite sexes (which we\u2019re all subject to, or will do during our lifetime), but also the not-so-talked-about but nevertheless common associations we have with our friends, family and close acquaintances. If ever there was a classic example to showcase on relationship breakers, we humans would stand in as the best of plausible exponents. There\u2019s a thin line between having an opinion and enforcing your belief. We seldom realize when and how we cross that line.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-120","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/statueofpuberty.com\/sp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/statueofpuberty.com\/sp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/statueofpuberty.com\/sp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/statueofpuberty.com\/sp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/statueofpuberty.com\/sp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=120"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/statueofpuberty.com\/sp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/statueofpuberty.com\/sp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/statueofpuberty.com\/sp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/statueofpuberty.com\/sp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}