Thoughts and Opinions

Guess what peoples! I'm in a ranting mood again :) 'uh oh' I hear you all say!

Okay,

My mate just said what a fail iRobot is and backed up his statement with 'Actually, it'd be quite a win if it wasn't so CHEESY!' (Yes you know who you are!) which, is fair enough I guess seeing as we're not doing an exam and he doesn't have to back up this by giving examples as to why it's cheesy.

He's not the only one who has been commenting and disagreeing with my likes and dislikes though. I've had comments about my taste in music, what films I like and dislike, my interests etc. If I like a band or singer that someone else doesn't like, then what gives them the right to pick faults with that band or singer in order to try and convince me that I'm wrong by liking them? Nothing, that's what. I'm not going to automatically change my mind because a certain person disagrees with me. I don't care if they then like me less just because I like or dislike it either.

People are entitled to their own opinions. They always have and always will be because that's part of what makes us human. If someone wants to state that they agree or disagree with my opinion, then they can by all means but they should at least state after, '... but that's just my opinion.' and leave it at that. That's both of us said what we needed to say then.

I'm not just saying this happens to me, oh no, this happens to everyone. We all have friends that will pick fault when it comes to our likes and dislikes and it annoys us all. We're made to feel like we're a bad person if we like a certain band, dislike a certain film etc but we're not bad at all! We are allowed to like what we want to like. We're allowed to not like what we want to not like and we all have our reasons for it as well.

Everyone to their own, I always say. If you're passionate about something whether you like or dislike it then stick to it, don't change your mind about it just because someone disagrees with you.

Having our own thoughts and opinions again, is what makes us human. If we all thought the same about everything- minus the mechanical parts- how would that make us different from robots? Our thoughts and opinions are what make us unique. No-one likes all the things I do, no-one dislikes all the things that I do and no-one thinks the same as I do (thank goodness!).

So my advice to all you readers (if any!) ... by all means, state how you feel about someone's opinion but mark that at the end by saying that what you've just commented is your opinion and then let them believe what they want. If they carry an argument further then okay, back up your points but don't lead them to think that they're wrong in thinking how they do about something. If they're being cocky about it, walk away cause it's not worth it. Maybe add on the end of their rant 'Everyone to their own' - that seems to shut them up.

Valentine's Day

I'm in a ranting mood so instead of doing my coursework... I'm going to rant about Valentine's day!

Don't get me wrong I do like Valentine's day for a few reasons but none of them being the same reasons as most people.

Here's a bit of history for you. In ancient Rome, Emperor Claudius the second also known as Claudius the cruel, banned all marriages because he wanted his soldiers to concentrate on war but there was one priest who was known as Valentine and he secretly married everyone anyway because he believed in love. Claudius found out about the secret marriages and so he threw Valentine in jail. While he was in jail, he became friends with the jailer's daughter and so on the day of his execution (February 14th) he left a note for her and on the note it said 'Farewell from your Valentine' and that is the history of how Valentine's day came about.

As usual, we have made something wonderful into something only partly wonderful. We did it with Christmas and Easter and of course ended up doing it with Valentine's day too. We make Christian times of celebration into holidays where we can stuff our faces with junk food and buy each other gifts and what not. Don't get me wrong, I love those things it's just that I'd rather we did it for the right reasons. In actual celebration of the events rather than just greed but that way, it would make Christians look really bad in the eyes of non believers.

If you love someone, you don't need a day to prove that to them. Buy them gifts and tell them that you love them because you feel like it! Not because of some stupid money making holiday.

I like February the 14th because of seeing how much people love one another. I'm currently single so I really don't care about the gifts and cards. Looking at Facebook today I saw several messages of love and it just proves to the more bitter people amongst us that it does actually exist and love is in no way a myth. I'll agree that some people mistake love with lust and will tell each other that they love each other after a few weeks of going out- that's ridiculous! Well, it's ridiculous if they've not known each other for that long. A lad once told me that he loved me and he'd known me for about a month and barely spoken to me. He didn't have a clue what I liked, what my interests were etc. That is lust, not love. Love is knowing someone inside and out, his and her towels, lets grow old together, head over heels, full on L O V E (Yes that last bit is a quote from how to lose a guy in 10 days). Lust is in 2 words, seeing and wanting.

Anyway the point is, by all means celebrate Valentine's day but not for the wrong reasons! Just because it's Valentine's day doesn't mean that you HAVE to go out and buy your partners something. Do it because you want to, not because you have to. And don't just do it on those special occasions, do it when you just feel like buying them something nice because they're worth it. By that I don't mean some sort of Loreal product :P