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You know I’ve come to loathe that statement.

I really have; don’t understand the depths of my loathsomeness.

Any statement that has something about opening your mind at this point, is cause for side-eyeing from me.

Why?  I’ll discuss.

Now if what you mean is that I should learn more things then I’m learning, be willing to step outside my norm (to a point) and see what I can invite in to become a better person.

Then I’m all for it.

Open that mind!

And explore while we are at it.

But rarely that is what people mean.  It’s usually a preface or an afterthought after you’ve shown me things I DO NOT WANT to invite into my space.  Key word here is INVITE.

Did we hear that? (Or see it in this case, lol)

Everyone is different. What you may want to explore and open your mind to things I may not wish to.

In fact we should be careful what we open our minds to and explore.

Everyone has a filter (at least everyone should) that filters out bad things or things that you don’t want to get into your psyche.  That’s the mark of common sense really.

Because not everything works for everyone’s psyche. More to the point there are some things that exist that should not even be in the running to enter a person’s psyche.

That’s why we have so many people lacking common sense now.

So the next time a person tells you to “open your mind”…..I don’t care who it is, friend, teacher, co-worker, think about exactly what you are opening your mind to.  If you feel that it’s something worth your while to explore and open your mind to, by all means.

If not, use that filter in your brain, stick to it and make no apologies.