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Opinions are unreal

2 min readOct 19, 2026

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As an evolutionary way of interpreting experiences and making decisions opinions can change interpretations into delusional scenarios.

Making opinions can be a good thing as long as it’s not done in the judgment of others and in negative ways.

Apart from protection, opinions can be very detrimental to the damage of our social situations and how we treat each other.

Just like any mental exercise, it takes practice to get good refraining from negative judgments because of what we have seen or heard.

Your judgments are not your own; they’re derivatives of everything you’ve ever experienced.

Most of the cruel social interaction based things that we do are born out of boredom and some of the things that we acquired during school.

We are told Mari younger not to do these bad things but as we get older, we don’t continue to practice against them to form good habits towards other people even if it feels like it’s fake.

We forget to strive to be kind people and people that is a virtue that builds a rich life full of good experiences with others.

Opinions keep you from experiencing reality the way it actually is because you start changing and morphing it due to what your interpretation is.

Reality is beautiful and perfect, but our expectations and desires are deep, rooted everything from money to houses to cars to jewelry to…

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Richard J Pate
Richard J Pate

Written by Richard J Pate

Poetry on modern life + Phenomenology & Dialectic Deconstruction (I use errors to fool automation. I aim to deter. Only the strong will read)