OPINIONS NEED TO COME WITH LOVE
|| This summary written on 31st October 2023
I wonder if the speaker in today’s session just dipped into the fresh thoughts that were filling my mind to use for today’s words of wisdom. Yes, they are wise words, but are probably wasted on far too many people in today’s communities across the world.
During this period of my holiday, I was wrapped up in the production of a potential new podcast series and the filming of episode one. It was about the topic of the issues within our spiritualist churches at this time.
So in my respects it’s hardly surprising that the speaker chose to use that melting pot of mind-thoughts to make a fresh point, one that I had not even considered. Their words however did lead to me amending the script for the final scene, to include their message.
As a person that often gets animated over my own opinion, (which is always correct of course), I recall one of the wonderful hidden aspects of interviewing a variety of people for the Spirited Talk podcasts. It was in the variety of varying opinions each guest has.
It was my job to suppress my own opinions and effectively only ‘love’ the guest for their beliefs, even when I entirely disagreed with them. That was more often than you might imagine too!
There was one guest in particular where both our opinions clashed. It was because we each had our own strong opinions on the administration of a specific subject. Don’t get me wrong, I loved the guest and will always admire and respect them, but during the interview, we became rather too expressive of our own opinions on this matter. It took me eighteen months to build up the courage to finally release that particular episode. I was upset with it because I had allowed my opinion to be too prominent during the interview.
This aspect of life is one I would call a “work in progress”, and I suspect if we were all to be honest with ourselves, we could all do with working on it!
Additional Thoughts
Would life be any poorer if we all withheld our opinions from others, or would the canvas of life be less colourful? I can’t help but think that if I held back my opinions until somebody asked me for them, I’d wait a long time!