- Do you still recall the time you had a minor epiphany and realized that not everyone looked at things exactly the same way you do? That they possessed a different viewpoint and consequently addressed issues in a majorly different manner than you? That they viewed problems through a different lens than you—a foreign lens which you never encountered on display in a storefront, let alone held in your hands to closely examine? That their cognitive process worked drastically different from your own, thus churning out beliefs and dogma and “prejudices” drastically different from your own as well? Well, my friend, the day that epiphany occurred also coincided with the conception of your TRUE maturity, a day when you graduated from an uncomprehending naïf who innocently believed that everyone’s thought process was homogenous to a discerning individual who understands that free will, free thought, and free expression birth an infinite number of viewpoints and perspectives—as many as there are currently people in existence on the face of our planet Earth. And to authentically understand this crucial concept is to finally embrace the level of maturity which is rightfully expected of an adult Homo sapiens—past, present, and future. Not to suffer all fools and endorse bald ignorance and rush out to purchase a MAGA cap, mind you, but just to recognize the diversity of opinions “out there” in the humansphere as well as the virtually indestructible roots from which many of those questionable opinions germinate and attendant futility in attempting to pull them up to be exposed to therapeutic sunlight.
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