Does this taste like an opinion to you?

Justin Vildosola 

Eng 101 

10/2/2014 

Does this taste like an opinion to you? 

It's true, we are all entitled to our own opinion but they are like arm pits; everyone has one and they all stink. Sure we might not agree with what one person has to offer on the subject, but that doesn’t mean that we should disregard their opinion. You’d be surprised on what that person has to say, it might just be the thing that ends up changing your view on that subject matter. Coming from personal experience, I'm not that opinionated as other people are, clearly, I don’t see myself as someone who thinks they are better then others; I'm more open minded to topics of discussion. What makes this blog so hard to write is not the fact that we have the right to say what we want, but how can we say one opinion changed our thinking? Whose to say that someone who was a die hard conservative all of a sudden heard a speech from a person involved with the LGBT movement and said: "Hey, these guys aren't so bad after all. Maybe we can learn a thing or two from them." It might take hundreds of opinions, facts, or just plain statistics that change our thought process.  

Opinions are great, they offer what the person is saying and feeling at the time and how they believe a certain action works. What I don't like about opinions is how people see it as a way to force their way of thinking down someone's throat: "YOU MUST READ FROM THIS NEWS ARTICLE ON HOW TO LOSE 30LBS IN 10 DAYS TO A SLIMMER YOU!" Ok that’s not entirely an opinion, but doesn't that author or source come off as a bit opinionated? " 'If you drink five gallons of vegetables and fruit in 10 days you will see better results' Jason Clarkson, CI Wakeforest" That's not an actual quote so don't quote me on it. They can also lead to some sticky situations in which the reader might feel threatened about a certain subject, and that that new way of thinking will destroy what they might have built up in their mind as a strong, structured path, that was proven to be correct. 

So if your asking me if there was an opinion someone had mentioned to me that changed the way I thought about something, I couldn't really answer that. I am an open minded individual who sees things from all angles, you may see a cup as just a cup; to me it’s a hat, a shovel, a shoe, heck, it can even be a rocket ship with the right imagination! If it seems like I'm off topic from the question on how an opinion has changed my thought process, that itself is my answer on how opinions have changed me. Do what you will with the information you are given, do so in a manner that does not negatively affect someone, rather, it becomes a beacon of knowledge that opens ones' mind on how a circle can be made out of different objects.