Open-mindedness is hard.
Yesterday I was asked my opinion on the school my daughter goes to. The person asking is considering sending his kid there, too.
I found myself answering every question he asked with the caveat, “it depends.”
Because it does. On so many things.
Things far less consequential than my personal experience and opinion of the school.
Later I came across this quote:
Maturity: the confidence to have no opinion on many things.
When I was young, I used to follow up opinion statements with, “but that’s my opinion, not yours.” My parents tease me about it to this day. As a little girl with a lot of opinions, I seemed to have also wanted to make it very clear that these opinions were indeed not fact or anything to be taken too seriously.
It seems I wanted to leave room for other people’s opinions.
Even a concept as seemingly agreed upon as love, has so many opinions surrounding it. Opinions about what it is, what it looks like.
Proverb: Those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.
