In Your Opinion

Your opinion is very important if you form it yourself. The ones we borrow are just not as valuable. Your opinion is a simple combination of what you feel and think, and that's where simplicity ends. Your opinion is used to describe everything you've ever learned, your perspective on history, reality, and the future. Keep in mind, the opinion you have about any one specific thing is keep with your opinion about all the other things, and that would include everything. Not very simple at all.

To form anything you need some kind of base material. An opinion is generated by an emotional response to knowledge which is processed into understanding, or the effect one has upon the other. All incoming information is energy to a human brain, and subject first to emotional response, as they are inherent. Consider the process of understanding as a series of filters, and the emotional filter receives the information first. At birth, the emotional filter is all we have, and learned information becomes part of the filtering system as information is processed into understanding or knowledge. Learning cycles are complete when new information bonds, or blends with learned information (knowledge) and completely filters back through to memory. Forming an opinion is a natural side effect of the learning process. They are influenced by all that inspires us. Your opinion is your critical link to expression, and all forms of expression are done with emotion. The process is nearly reversed, up from ideas and memory, through word association and usage, right to the emotional filter for speech (or written words). Lost in the complexity of our own emotions, we can loose regard for the thoughts and feelings of those to whom we express our opinions. If we find emotional harmony or balance within ourselves, in a sense, we are keeping the filter level. Love and fear are opposing forces, and balancing them is much harder than it sounds.

 If your opinion is honestly how you feel, it is more often considered valued. If your opinion is formed from broad assumptions, or contains a motive, it can sidetrack or undo the value in having it. What you form your opinion from becomes equally as important as what it formed into. This is easily understood, with the amazing balance of honesty. Honesty shapes your opinion. In a word, trust. 

Some might say emotions are used more than knowledge to form opinions or to use  judgment, and to them this creates a 'certain kind' of person with thousands of groups to associate them with. Others will say knowledge is used more, and this creates the 'other kind' of person with equally as many groups. A true understanding of equality is focused more on the dynamic use of energy for thought, which is why we form opinions, and less to do with categorizing people into understandable groups, which is what we do after we form the opinion. Perhaps we should use emotions and knowledge equally to better understand each other. Understanding is the reason we communicate in the first place.

So even with our desire for facts on an endless quest for truth, and with our ever loving need to communicate, as far and as fast as our words can travel, everything will come right down to our opinion. Any one description of life itself is an opinion, acting as an indirect view or peripheral vision of perception. Because we think we reach conclusions, and we hold experience in memory, and use that experience to understand the use and value in wisdom.

What's in your opinion? The real question is, what isn't...

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Archie Papa...