Hard Facts of Conscious Life · Opinions and Bitter Realities
⁘ “Opinions from preference and limited exposure. Actualities rooted in direct experience and inescapable patterns. It is so in the physical world — so too in the mental world. Not padding it for you. It is what it is, okay? Deal with it.”
...or be the most palatable man in the world.
I simply call it as I see it.
So we have opinions from personal preference and from limited exposure.
Then we have actualities rooted in direct experience and inescapable patterns.
It is so in the physical world,
and it is also so in the mental world, in the realms of awareness.
Suppose, driven by obsession and fixation,
your awareness races into a tunnel.
You'll be blind to the rest of the world and to the rest of yourself.
Not an opinion – happens all the time.
Suppose you lock yourself into a particular identity and environment.
This is how it must be, forever and ever.
Battling with inevitable change, there is suffering.
Not an opinion – happens all the time.
And none of those need I preface with "in my humble opinion".
It is what it is, okay?
Deal with it.