Why is everyone trying to impose their beliefs, their principles on everyone else? It’s not necessary that I should agree with you or share your beliefs. And it definitely is not necessary that if my beliefs differ from yours you should put in every ounce of energy you have in changing my beliefs to yours (or vice versa). It’s high time we learnt to accept different opinions, beliefs and principles. Of course we feel our beliefs are right and the corollary that their beliefs are wrong. But if that person ‘believes’ it…he must also think he is right. He might not be able to explain it. He might not be as good with expression of his thoughts as you are and maybe half as good as you are with convincing people. That doesn’t make him wrong or you right.
There are still a million phenomena occurring all around us for which we have no logical explanation. But still they occur. Maybe his beliefs have something to do with these unexplainable occurrences. This is just one of the possible reasons I’m trying to put across to bring about this change in attitude. Maybe it’s stupid. Maybe you can come up with a better explanation. As long as you can accept difference.
Variety, they say, is the spice of life. This is the precise reason why we need various points of view, various sets of principles and various opinions. All the discussions need not end with ‘either you convince me, or get convinced’. Just imagine, it would be such a monotonous life if all of us had just one view on everything. Say for example, if all of us thought that Sachin Tendulkar should retire. What would the media write about everyday then? Rather what would you read about everyday? What would form the dinner table conversation of most of the houses in India? But these are petty topics. Topics that don’t affect our life in an explicit manner. Therefore we can afford these differences. Why not the same outlook for other matters? So proudly we read the slogan which signifies the Indian strength ‘unity in diversity’, then why is there a lack of spirit to accept the diverse beliefs? Why?
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