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Originally Posted by Mystic Mock
I'm probably more open to different types of Music now than I was last year.
Tbh that's probably always my biggest growth in opinion every year.  |
Open-mindedness is almost always a good thing.
Generally speaking it pays to mellow things down unless you’re dealing with people you truly absolutely hate (which is fair enough). The slightest thing (however innocuous truly) can be taken as a threat and you seen as a passive-aggressive bully if someone doesn’t have the same values as you or have the same strength of being anti-something you consider very wrong. People are always going to push your bottoms and cross boundary-lines where you’d rather they didn’t but it’s not always worth saying something. Sometimes it genuinely is though.
As for me personally I still hate the people I hate with every fibre of my being but that’s people, not values or general opinions. But I’m definitely more mellow when it comes to the whole issue of discrimination (different kinds of it) and things that get in the way of appreciating healthy diversity (again, of different types). I still stand for what I stand for but I don’t express those opinions with the same level of vitriol and passion that I used to.