everybody has their own opinion.....

i've come to this immense paradox in life.... i understand that everyone has their own opinion. i get it. and most times you can't change people's opinions... oh sure, it happens, but in the course of the average day i think anyone anywhere changing their opinion on a topic is the exception, not the rule.

and i have my own idea of what right and wrong is. so anyone who does wrong qualifies that person as being wrong. and that bothers me cuz i don't like to see people do wrong. but then again, these are things you can't ever totally eliminate from society. as long as we exist, people will be out there doing the wrong thing.

and for all i know, i'm doing the wrong thing(s). i know i have already. i've learned in life and changed my views based on me doing shit i thought was right then coming to a realization that what i just did was wrong and i should never do said wrong thing again.

so now i'm wrong... even in my own eyes... but i've learned so at what point can i be right again?

and so it goes... i'm just one confused person on this issue... i can't imagine the whole rest of the world... everyone trying to sort out their own moral dilemmas and at the same time measuring up everyone else by their own standards.

at what point can you force your standards on to others? murder, rape, racism... those things are wrong... i know that.. but people do that. at what point can i get on a soapbox and say, 'hey, don't do that.'

and for all the minor things we can disagree on... at what point are we allowed to tell each other what to think and do? at what point is telling other people how to think also the wrong thing to do? you can't just force your views onto other people... that's fascist in principle. 

and even though you know others may be wrong, is it ever right to condemn someone for thinking wrongly? shouldn't we be more open to forgiving one another and helping each other grow? 

but we're all offended by something... we all have our limits. 

i don't know how to wrap this up. i guess my best conclusion at this point is that all anyone can do is try to do right by them and hope that they keep doing right... and hope that's good enough. hopefully the fruits of our actions will be more than enough to help spread what's right and help replace what's wrong.

maybe the right thing for everyone to do is shut up and let our actions do the talking. but how do i communicate that to anyone without being rude?