Opinions

I've always been a very opinionated person, and my opinions have never been necessarily popular, and many times my opinions have gotten me in trouble with people. I don't like a lot of popular things, and there are some things people take as a granted that I am thoroughly against. One of those I have talked about several times before, being my extreme dislike for Game of Thrones - I love the middle ages, but I hate sad and dark stories, and anyone who tries to argue that that is not what Game of Thrones is has clearly never used their brain. Nothing against the people who do like that show, because I know that the writing is terrific and very few people can argue against seeing naked bodies on tv, but it is very much so not for me.

This is true in a lot of things, and I am very strong in my opinions. So strong that the people around take my opinions as though I intend them to be rules that they are required to follow when they are around me. Which is not at all what I intend for my opinions to be. My opinions are merely that: opinions. I may not understand other people's opinions, and I may be against what other people do, but I would never try to stop them from doing the things that they want to do unless I felt that there was some kind of risk to doing so. Things like hard drugs or extremely unhealthy eating habits. And while there are a lot of things that I am strongly against, and I may scoff at people who are doing things that I disagree with, but I would never tell them not to do it just because I don't like it, regardless of how close they are to me.

I'm not a very controlling person. I have my preferences, and I won't hesitate to voice them, but I would rather be someone who follows than a person who leads. I am very good at doing what people tell me to, and that's something about me that I'm ok with. I don't need to be the one making the rules - I am satisfied to merely follow them. Despite what several of the people around me think, even if I tell them otherwise a dozen times. So why exactly they think that I believe that my opinions are the final line, never to be crossed or questioned, is beyond me.

But even beyond these things, I have found that in the last few months in particular, my opinions have begun to change. Many things, particularly when it comes to physical appearance, I have become more accepting of over this time. Things like piercings, makeup, tattoos, and hair dye. I have never been fans of these, and in the past have been vehemently opposed to them. I can't say that I'm really into any of them now, but I'm not immediately angered by them anymore. I don't think they're necessary or even necessarily beneficial. But if they are something that someone enjoys, and they don't go overboard with them, well... I can look past that.

Assuming they have a good personality, of course. If they're assholes to begin with, all the more reason to be angry.