It Doesn't Belong To You

-something a little different-

In this day and age, there is nowhere safe from opinions. They travel faster than the speed of light; back and forth back and forth until the comments grow and the feedback floods in and more opinions are shoved down throats. There are the magazines: one advocates for health, one advocates for self love, one says youre not skinny enough, one says you need to eat more. There are the tv shows, where you can go from one news station to the next and get a whole different perspective of that car crash on the highway, who’s hurt, and who’s to blame. The opinions are constantly coming, and they never stop. People are always trying to get their voice heard, and are trying to get other people to believe in their view, and not someone else’s.

                  Leeper’s comment today in class really sparked all of this for me. I’ve been thinking about it all day. It was directed towards Christians and the Bible- “It doesn’t belong to you, you don’t get to tell the rest of the world how to read it”.

                  Isn’t that so true though? Not just of Christians but people in general? We’re so busy to get our word out there. We get possessive of things we are saying and defending or arguing against. But they’re not ours.

                  Everyone sees things differently; everyone has their own perspective- why does anyone HAS to see something the way someone else does? Especially of something like the Bible, or the same goes for art, as well. What I love is how in this class people have so many different views and things to say about every film we watch and can just say them. It’s all about acceptance of opinion and being judgement-free. But I don’t understand how so much of this world is so tainted and possessive. It’s all this narrow-mindedness that people these days face and it really just… I don’t know. Gets under my skin.

                  So next time somebody says something, and puts their opinion out there, think about it, before you say anything. You don’t own them. Doesn’t belong to you.

also, this ranting is not a normal occurrence for me! so thanks for reading anyways :)