This site contains many posts on varying topics. There may be more than one post about a particular topic, discussing different aspects of that topic. You may be reading a post about anger and not identify with it. You may think that the views expressed are all wrong or maybe you just can’t get your head around whatever it is that I am talking about. But there may be other posts about anger that you may find incredibly useful. Or you may be enlightened by seventy-five percent of the post and not like the remaining twenty-five percent. The point is you don’t have to make the use of this site an all or nothing matter. Life is not usually black or white, it’s usually gray.
Approaching your quest for happiness with the attitude that life and all its components are not necessarily black or white or all or nothing, may prove to be a beneficial mindset to possess. Because you do not agree with a certain view or cannot relate to a certain idea or feeling discussed in a post, doesn’t mean that you will not benefit from other parts of that post. How often do we close our minds when we hear something foreign to us, immediately judging the strange information we just heard? When we do this, we close ourselves off to potentially valuable information that may follow. I have done this many times only to later realize what I missed. I have also disagreed with the views of others only to later end up sharing the exact view in which I once disagreed. I remember reading a religious book some years ago and did not at all believe in some of the basic concepts of this religion. Today, it’s the religion that I practice!
Things change. Views, opinions, feelings, thoughts, actions, beliefs and so on, are subject to change. So, why not keep and open mind while reading the information on this site? Not understanding or agreeing with certain views doesn’t need to cause you to miss out on other information that you may find extremely useful. There is usually more then one answer to a problem. Take what you need while on your path to happiness and leave the rest. You just may leave something on the side of the path today that you’ll need next year. May you be happy and at peace.
*This post was inspired by FA
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