Just a rambling thought (on this frreeeezzzzing cold day)!

So I’m thinking about conflict, mostly religious and political, and why our world is so caught up in it.  What if we were all to let our mind open a bit more and expand.  Some of us get so stuck in our ways, thinking that those who disagree are foolish.  Really all arguments are about who’s right and who’s wrong.  That ego of ours can be a bitch!

I think that the more our mind opens, the more we realize that it’s okay to have different opinions.  It’s okay to want different things.  It’s okay to have different beliefs.  Having choices, being different, and having the freedom to do what we want is what makes life so awesome.

It’s not about who’s right and who’s wrong.  Can’t we just be okay with having our own opinions?  Ideas are born from an open mind, from the thinking that we can expand on what we have.  We can have bigger and better if that’s what we want, but it takes an open mind to dream of something different.

If we all conformed and had the exact same beliefs then we would really be limited.  We would have no new inventions.  No one would be thinking outside the box.  We would basically be like robots.

So next time you disagree with someone or go to a different church or have an adamant view of the president and think that everyone else is crazy for not thinking the same as you — just remember…it’s okay.  In fact, it’s good!

So it starts with you.  It starts with me.  As Gandhi says “Be the change you want to see in the world”.

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