“I know you think you understand what you thought I said but I’m not sure that you realized that what you’ve heard is not what I meant” – Alan Greenspan

[Don't think I have a relevant photo to go with this, but here it one. She kinda look like she's thinking I suppose]

What I’m about to babble on about pretty much applies to EVERYTHING ! Everybody have certain things they like, whether it is music, books, films, foods, phones, shoes, shirts, even simple thing like socks, you get my point, anyway these things are all different and not everyone else in the world will like the same things you do. However it is NOT “crap” in any ways, a lot of people still doesn’t understand the simple concept of how different mind works differently and that not everyone’s going to think that, that certain thing lets say its music, is “crap”. The thing you have to keep in mind is that by all mean to your opinion you have all the rights in the world to say that it is “crap” or it is “cool”, but when sharing these opinion you have to bare in mind that theirs might be far off yours.

A simple situation of one of these would be:

This is the [what I think] is the more civilized way of handling the situation. If someone was sitting in a room listening to music doing whatever they’re doing and you enters, all is well, on the other hand you’ve notice the music and does not like it. Now it is not wrong or right for you to not like this music, you may ask the person to change it, turn it off, or put a head phone on. Simple and everybody is happy.

Now this is the [what I think] is the worst way for someone to handle the situation. Let’s say it’s the same scenario as the one before, music playing you enter the room, doesn’t like it. This is where things goes wrong, first obvious thing that the person enters the room will do is say something like “what is this ?” (usually with the word “crap” or “shit” at the end). Which is fair enough if you want to know, what is this sound made by the vibration coming from the speakers, produced by the electrical current submitted by the programing of the computer/iPod/phones/etc. But you know its making noise at a certain notes, with certain beats to go along with it must be music of some sort. Unless you find it hard to recognized music, at which point I suggest you see a physiologist or a doctor. Okay now after the person already in the room explained the music t them, the usual response is “This is SHIT!” This is where a argument starts, not because either wanted to cause a fight, but it’s because both different people have different interests. Sometime the person who dislike the music (in this case) knows what reaction he will get by expressing how much he dislike this music. By doing this he purposely provoking the person who likes the music to explain their reason for liking the music, just so that they can once again express how they feel in a different way to they and persuade that person to think how they do.

Now what they have to know is to act correctly in situation like this, like I said anyone have the right to hate/like anything they want. On the other hand it’s not right to just presumed that everybody’s going to like/hate it too. The simple facts is if they don’t like it, you going to them “This is the shit man, its amazing have a listen[look, watch, etc.]” isn’t going to change their mind. In-fact it might make them hate/like it even more than before. It is that simple thing you can do to respect other people’s opinions. Yes, discuss it with each other but also keep it in the discussion that it’s each person’s opinion, not the whole group will have the same answer to something. I think that just throwing your opinion out there not discussing the differences, likes and dislikes. then take in consider other people’s opinion in any ways shape or form and just expecting it to be find is just unacceptable.

So please people, respect other people’s opinions too. In the end yours is not the only one that matters when it comes to living in the world where different opinion matters too. There are many different way thing are being seen by many different people. “Wow” I’ve put a lot of “different” in here.

Remember my earlier post about making friends ? When I mentioned that I made some new friends from the Lomomission ? Well this brilliant musician just happen to be one of them….

[Yes the mysterious man behind the sandwich is the man I'm talking about]

His name is John Budding, a Student, musician, songwriter & photographer. John have some of the best music I’ve heard in a while, so why not have a quick listen. John have a website of his own www.johnbudding.co.uk go and check it out….. I’m sorry i can’t really say too much in this blog, like I said he’s a new friend.