I think I’m trying or at least will continue to make a better effort of trying to be more cognizant of my tendencies to do this on a regular basis.  I find that often enough, I think I know what’s going on, set my mind to that thought and typically (although not all the time), am proved wrong when all the facts surface.  I think that’s what a lot of us do?!  I say this as I read a seemingly trivial story about the media insinuating that Betty White and the remaining live Golden Girls “snubbed” Estelle Getty because they weren’t at her funeral.  Apparently, however, the silver-haired threesome were active and involved in Estelle’s life leading up to her death.  Just because they didn’t attend the funeral is not cause for people assuming that one or all of them did not care or that she wasn’t important in their lives…we just do things that make sense for both ourselves and the people involved.  Our choices are inherently personal and hopefully well thought out.  I mean, most mine are?  While I do also admit to having some true whoppers of stupid choices without much thought.

I guess this thought comes up because, I’ve been reading so many article headlines about celebrities who may/or may not be divorcing, liberals and their radical differences from conservatives, democrats vs. republicans, Christians vs. the rest of the world (at time it seems), whatever…and I find that a lot of times we make both gross generalizations and conclusions based on our need to just ”settle the matter”.  In other words, I think sometimes we struggle with and can’t process ambiguity, so in order to quiet our minds from the rattling caused by a thought that might be contrary to what we want or hope to believe, we put our own biased-stamp on an idea just so we can get peace on an issue that hurts our brains.

I don’t know…it’s up for debate and discourse obviously.  However, it should be noted that conclusions are different than opinions.  You probably should come to a conclusion before stating an opinion, and I do sometimes think it’s good to pause on commentary while you truly decide what your opinion is.  Either way…if truth surfaces or facts come up, let’s do the honorable thing and admit when we’re wrong okay?  It’s okay to admit that you may have been wrong about something. It’s okay to say that after falsely judging something and finding out more about a situation that your opinion on the subject has changed.  It’s okay to let children know to accept responsibility for their conclusions and opinions and to be a quality individual in accepting that we’re all not right 100% of the time.  I hope we all do that for our next generation…I don’t want to jump to conclusions that we’re not.