Tag: Philip Dodson

It’s just an opinion

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‘Mud on the wipers’ by Philip Dodson

We all have our worldviews, our opinions, our thoughts and our beliefs.

They are just that, ours.

Be open to others and their views and opinions and I would never want to live in a world where there is only one accepted voice. Debate and exchange of views in a positive forum can only be beneficial, we need to understand before we can hope to influence others.

However, do not lose faith in your opinions, do not be fearful of voicing your views and your beliefs, doesn’t mean you can not modify them. Stick to yours, be proud of them, be passionate about them and stay true to your values. Often, we allow the strong opinions of the critic to dominate us, to seed doubt, simply because of their behaviour or dominance.

After all other people’s views are just that, opinions, not right, not wrong, just an opinion.

Without meaning

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This is when we give up, this is when despair comes in, this is when any form of suffering is unbearable.When there is no meaning to what we do.

Meaning, like success, is a personal thing, only we can decide what our meaning is and that is all that matters. It is our reason for life and we alone decide it. This is not the business of others to dictate what it will be or is.

A life without meaning is no life, our search, therefore, is not for the meaning of life, it is for our own life’s meaning. That will change and adapt, there is no right or wrong answer, but the struggle that is life is only able to be endured when there is a meaning. A reason for what we do.

Search for meaning and then following that is critical to a fulfilled, happy, successful and soulful existence and will enable us to keep going through any situation.