To have || ! (to have) opinions*

* the title is read -  "To have or not to have opinions". || means OR and ! means NOT

I don't understand how some people ever answer "no comments" or "don't know" to any poll. To have no opinion is to lose my power of thinking totally. I mean, if you think, you will end up with an opinion, right? Then what will you do with that opinion if you don't let others know that? I don't know.

Be it what color the wall behind the fireplace should be painted with or if a defect is serious enough to gate a release milestone, I always have a say. (Those come from thinking about the things and don't get me wrong, I am not imposing my opinion but I don't shirk away from expressing my suggestions either.)

The fact that I love to comment (wherever there's a scope for) and do love to share my views is the sole reason of creating this blog. The same drive my love of presentations and brown bags. I am a religious contributor to our company's employee poll, I never miss any chance of providing feedback or survey.

Here's the Yeti's opinion :-)

To me voicing one's opinion is the entire give and take part of the existence of the human society. If you do not provide feedback, not let people know when they are wrong (in a polite way, that is) and not speak, how is the world going to know your likes and dislikes? How are you thinking of changing anything? With that, another thing is being honest. If you don't ask and don't speak your mind, are you being honest? No! Think about it.

Freedom of speech is an extraordinary thing to possess. People hardly ever realize the value of it. I am not sure if I realize it fully, but I do to a certain extent. So I try to avail that.

I have a reputation of asking candid questions at seminars. It started from my late teens and is continuing till today :-) (it makes me feel great when the speakers are lost and stammer stupid replies). My questioning reputed scholars to the face at Netaji Bhawan, upsetting a speaker at St. Xavier's college so much that she started to cry (she was a sly adult, one of those hypocrite socialists, I wouldn't do it to a young person), asking marketing plans to senior executives at work and arguing with Christian elders at Church about why Genesis doesn't make any sense to me are all because of me being of a type A personality. Some people cheer me, one of these above mentioned Christian guys gave me a book to read (and he said he appreciates my questioning spirit), some say "great that you asked this question, we were all thinking about it" while many people (especially back home, where too much questioning is not considered good) would say, "why do you have to fight with everyone? Can't you just let them be?". Some others turn philosophical and say, "how many people will you be able to change? What's the whole point of fighting with these people?".

No, I wouldn't be able to change people (nobody could change me, right?) but I can try. What's the harm in asking? What's the harm in letting people know there is someone who is thinking in a different way, coming up with a different solution or even telling them, "you are not the only one who has a say". I haven't been yet able to figure out what happened to Netaji, nor could I change the hypocrite-socialist to realize that the people we call minority are at times living better lives than the majority, but for me, I know that I just didn't sit like a dummy.

Yes, it does

I owe it to myself to speak up and I owe it to the human race to think....