Opinion’s Deceptive Journey
A few nights ago, I had an enjoy-
ably in depth conversation with one
of my remaining best friends. We dis-
cussed those remarkable experiences
throughout our lives that kept redefin-
ing who we really are. Along with his
sixty years as a Catholic Priest, he still
shares our common sense and rational
Larry Wonderling
reasoning regarding those powerful
experiences in our long lives with those unexpected influ-
ences.
As a youth, my personal concerns became the purpose of
our existence with such questions as what happens to our
psyche, conscience, and accumulated memories when we
physically die? Of course such questions remain unanswer-
able, yet faith, as an indelible trust in another tomorrow, is a
genuine, unrelenting promise as psychologically binding as
any factual truth!
Another vital conviction I’ve personally acquired during a
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life of those inevitable trials and errors remain our pervasive
human imperfections. This might be the most enlightening
insight in my adult life, and a major incentive for the remain-
der this article!
Human perfection is no doubt a myth, yet denied by most
of life’s leaders who may believe in order to effectively lead,
the notion of perfection is vital! So why is imperfection dan-
gerous? My personal answer still consists of a few simple
words: because it’s too often denied.
Clearly experiencing our human imperfections, their re-
sultant mistakes, and blunders tend to persist throughout our
lives. As helpless infants, with no control over our choice of
parents, we began our individual journeys with only genetic
predispositions and parents who may or may not even have
wanted a newborn. Should we survive into adolescence, our
developmental successes and failures may well depend on
those endless opinions from significant others, including our
parents. From our young adulthood on, we continue to be
inextricably influenced by those opinions throughout the re-
mainder of our lives.
Our birth scenario into adulthood may hopefully remind us
just how fragile and utterly dependent we are on those verbal
communication influences in our lives. By that time, many of
those fading opinions have subtly become our beliefs, convic-
tions, even prejudices and dogmas—our personal opinions.
In my aging efforts to overcome many of those seductive
influences of right vs. wrong beliefs, I seem to have acquired
a pragmatic lifestyle of common sense. This is typically de-
fined as emphasizing practical consequences, with meaning-
ful realistic truths and values rather than abstruse, unverifi-
able theories and excessively bigoted principles.
Now in my twilight years, I’m grateful for our humanitarian
feelings of empathy and desire to help the needy. Admittedly,
I also personally smile in realizing that by now our major
“profound” beliefs probably developed from those rambling
opinions we learned from others throughout our lives.
– Larry Wonderling, Ph.D.
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