Are Your Minds Truly Open To Change?
Or Are You All Listening Or Reading The Social Media Pages Of Jimmy Bullshit?
“Progress is impossible without change, and those who can’t change their minds can’t change anything.”
— George Bernard
If you want to remain static in any phase of your life, keep telling yourself there is no reason to change your mind. After all, what is there to change when you are correct, and everyone else is wrong? Right?
Or are you courageous enough to consider the chance that you may have it wrong or at least some of it? When your mind is open to change, you can truly change anything, but only if it’s open. Open doesn’t mean closed eyes, ears, and mind, however. Open means wide, wide open.
Let me offer you a guide. You may be open if you can read or hear another point of view and not have a complete breakdown. You know you are open to learning and understanding when you do not have either a low/sad or high/mad reaction. Knowledge is not learned or understood in a second. That is why the internet, especially social media, is so abusively useless. People like you and I read a quote or a so-called truth because Jimmy Bullshit said it . . . and suddenly another weapon in our arsenal to attack the other side with.
If this is your learning method for improving yourself and the world, I must tell you that you are what you eat. If you eat this kind of crap, quick snacks of instant agreeable pleasure to your closed mind, then do not be surprised if you and your mind end up being permanently scarred and long-term ill. Indeed an angry boy or girl you will be. However, if you think highly enough of yourself to give yourself a gift, give yourself the time to understand information and others around you. A quick snack will not keep your mind alive. Take the time to listen and learn. It will ease your blood pressure too. Think of how much we all love a great, diverse meal with many interesting tastes and colors. Ignore Jimmy BS and listen carefully to your own heart and mind. Savor what you learn and hear; chew it around before digesting it. You may end up liking Brussel sprouts after all or not. But at least you tried.
The world will be very different when we recognize we all have much more in common than our few differences. And the differences should be celebrated and not vilified. The few at the top would have us divided intentionally to aid their own purposes. The rest of us should recognize that game for what it really is and not play it. It’s all these things that make us different that actually make us strong. When we change our minds, we can change anything! Progress is then possible.
© Stephen G. Arrowsmith 2021
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