2016: Medieval Times?

When I woke up this morning, I checked the calendar and it read March 9, 2016. I blinked and shook my head and read it once again: March 9, 2016. Amazed, I wondered how it could be 2016 if some people still acted as if they were living in one of my past lives where whenever a person disagreed with you, you would simply take your sward and off with their heads it would be? Medieval Times aka The Dark Ages.

Perhaps I need to make myself a bit clearer. Despite the technological advancement and discoveries in science and medicine, there are people who refuse to accept that not everyone needs to agree with you. People are allowed to vote for whoever they want to, read whatever they want to, think whatever they want to, in short, do whatever they want to as long as they respect the next person.

However, that is not what you see in today’s world, especially on social networks or in the media. There are some people who call the others stupid if they have a certain opinion, but, of course, they are not as nice as I am being and tend to use really harsh words to tell the other person that they are wrong. Wrong according to whom? Wrong according to you who is disrespecting the other’s opinion by calling him/her stupid for believing what they believe in?

I realize that I am beating around the bush here and if you have caught my message I do not want to specify, but, nonetheless, I am speaking about politics, abortion, being a woman, being a child, being a human being in this day and age.

People are cutting other people out of their lives simply because they do not agree on some topics. I guess that it is human nature. Who says that you need to agree on the same things? The whole world is a mess. It does not only happen here in my country, but also in other countries.

I always say that one should live and let live. Disagreement is necessary to help people evolve. The important word is RESPECT. Listen to what others have to say, reflect and talk about what is going on with respect.

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