by Anshita dhingra

Two types of opinion exist. One is the immediate thought that comes to your mind, and second, when you give it a thought and come to a rational decision. The latter depends on what your personal life experiences are, and the former depends on how your mindset is manipulated by society or your family, and your mind subconsciously responds in that way. For that, we have so many instances. 

For example, I talked to one of my friends last week about homosexuality and she replied immediately: “I think it’s not quite right.How people will have babies if everybody thinks like that.” I replied that if this is true, heterosexual people who do not want to have a child are also mistaken, and her answer was “no”. So she agreed after a few arguments that what she said was not right, but she grew up listening about how homosexuality is not natural, so her immediate response was that only.

Not only that, if you hear about a girl being hurt when she walks or travels on her own at night, your first thought would be that she should not go alone at night as the city is not safe. Perhaps your opinion does not mean to judge her, but eventually you miss the main question that it’s not time, but the cruelty of the event.

The list can go on and the result will always be the same: our thoughts are manipulated by society. It will take so much effort to pull yourself out of that circle and think rationally. There are plenty of times in your life when you say or do something which you later realize can be done in a different way. How do you feel if you’re talking about an important issue with your friend, and he just tries to give you an orthodox opinion? We know that everyone has opinions that are different and we can not categorize them as wrong or right, but we must oppose them if some opinions ruin the changes that we have made to this society after so much struggle.

It can sometimes be very effective to make spontaneous decisions or think randomly, but think twice if you are dealing with a sensitive problem or talking to somebody about what is sensitive to them.

Perhaps your opinion or judgment is not yours, it is a manipulative opinion of society.