There's something I must confess. Everyone does it but I'm choosing to change my mindset.

Sometimes I hear people giving their serious opinion about different issues in the world knowing fully well they have absolutely no experience with the topic they seem to know so much about. From experience, I have realized that there is no way for me to tell someone that I understand what they went through, what they do or don't do, etc. You can have some understanding of things but unless you've experiences it yourself, you have no way to really give an opinion on the subject. The opinions should be coming from the people who have felt the hurt, the pain, the struggle, the excitement, the joy, the high, etc from those experiences.

So here I am to tell you that although I think I know everything, I don't. I don't like people telling me or my friends they understand what we're going through when they themselves have absolutely no idea what their talking about, considering they have never once experienced what we have.

In conclusion, I apologize to anyone I've ever spoken to without prior knowledge or experience of what they've been through.

“We can never judge the lives of others, because each person knows only their own pain and renunciation. It's one thing to feel that you are on the right path, but it's another to think that yours is the only path.” - Paulo Coelho