Ok. Here’s my true scenario. Choose your reaction and we’ll go from there.

~~~A motorcycle rider has two young ladies on the back of his bike. So naturally I’m watching closely. All of a sudden he does some tricky swerve. The girls nearly fall off and he merely continues as though nothing happened.~~~

I’m 100 meters behind him on my own motorcycle.

How would you have responded in your mind (or heart). How did I respond?

A. What was he thinking? Doesn’t he know that he has to girls on his bike and he should drive more sensibly!

B. What were his reasons were for swerving like that?

If you guessed ‘A’ as my thought, you get a gold star.

Yes, ‘A’ was what I was thinking about for exactly 3 seconds before my bike hit a gaping hole in the road.

Second thought. “Yay, now I have a case study for my theory (which I didn’t apply in this instance).”

“People (generally) have a reason for what they do”

So I try to remember this theory when I see people do what appears to be stupid.

If I’d remembered my theory in this instance, I wouldn’t have had to replace the inner tube in my motorcycle wheel.

When little, I thought I knew a lot.
Now big, I know my thoughts are little.

Like Mark Twain said “When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished by how much he’d learned in seven years.”

I love to give my opinions away. It’s a cheap gift, I know. But giving others my opinions gives me self worth (sorta like keeping a blog).

Unfortunately, others also like giving me their opinions – even when I don’t want them.

But, I do like to receive someone’s opinion when I’ve already got the very same opinion. I feel they are smart because they’re clever enough to have an opinion that’s the same as mine.

So I have thousands of my own opinions and I collect yours as well (provided I’ve already got my own variation of your opinion).

Often I wonder where I got my thousands of opinions in the first place.

Naturally my opinions come from all over the place and it’s difficult to keep track of them.

On occasion I have caught myself giving an opinion away when halfway through, it occurs to me that I have no idea where I got that opinion or why I have it at all.

In these cases, I must lost face. I’ll usually say “Actually, don’t listen to me, I don’t really know.”

Hopefully I’ve only lost half my face because I was able to retract half my opinion.

Surely I’d look a bigger fool if I’d given away a stupid opinion proving my ignorance.“It’s better to be thought a fool than open your mouth and remove all doubt” was how Abraham Lincoln said.

Even stranger than this, is that over time, my opinions change. If I’ve given you an opinion and then change it one year on; the opinion I gave you loses its value.

And now I’m going to end with two opinions

… before I give any opinions away, I should know where I get that opinion in the first place, why I kept it and be sure that it’s not an opinion that’s going to change.

Really; shutting up is the best option

In my opinion.

There are too many things in life that we can’t have even if we wanted them.

…we desire and pine for them anyway.

There are far too many things in life that we have which we shouldn’t.

…but we keep them anyway.

There are far too many things in life that we have gained by wrong ethics.

…and we justify it anyway.

There are far too many things in life that are free and accessible to us that we refuse to accept or keep.

…we say we’ll accept them tomorrow but tomorrow never comes.

There are far too many things in life that we no longer need which others clearly could do well with it.

…but we hoard it all anyway.