Stop Believing blindly and start thinking...

we believe whatever our parents say...
we believe whatever our teachers say...
we believe whatever our religious preachers say...
we believe whatever our loved ones say...

Believing parents kills our curiosity and creativity.They train us to do things in their way. We doubt everyone who says something against what they have told us. If parents have a conflict we join one or the other person and believe the other one to be wrong. If parents have a conflict with someone else, we join our parents side believing that all others are wrong. We believe they know us better, we believe they will never tell us anything wrong. We just become blind followers...

Believing teachers keeps us illiterate in the sense that we could not think independently, they train us to read, write, solve mathematical problems by their given formula and just believe whatever the books say, even at higher education we read recommended books, we cannot think about who is saying this and why. We believe what is taught or we believe one theorist or group of theorists or the other. We just become blind followers...

Believing religious scholars keeps us away from our faith. They train us to say prayers as they do. When they say only our religion is the true religion, we believe it and then we begin to feel as if God is only going to be on our side. Whatever we may do our religion is true so at the end we'll be rewarded for that and no one else. We begin to believe that God will only reward us if we do what these preachers are telling us to do and we'll be badly punished otherwise. We believe whatever is being defined to us as piousness is what God wants from us. We
just become blind followers...

Believing our loved ones makes us insane. They tell us they love us and we believe. We tell them we love them and they believe. We have been trained to believe blindly so whatever we say to each other we can easily believe that. Until the reality strikes. We tell each other we are the best people and we tell each other no one can love more than we do. We believe each other and make each other believe it too; and we enjoy being the blind followers...

Think about all I said and please do not believe me...just think about it!

They can have their own choices...

I am unable to understand how can we force our choices on anyone...even on our own kids. As elders we are responsible to convey to them what we learned about life. It may be religion or it may just be social norms, we need to share all that we learned and it is a responsibility no doubt. But we do not even know when we turn this responsibility into an authority and we begin to enforce our choices on others...we not only enforce it on youngsters but we try to enforce upon all others around us...in our personal life as a mother, father, husband, wife, brother, sister and even as a friend...we want others to be what we want them to be or otherwise we'll at least disconnect and at most destroy...
This behavior spreads around the society and in one way or the other we seek to get this power...as religious leaders, as teachers, as landlords, as factory owners, as managers, as govt officers, as political leaders, ... we all tend to enforce our choices ... this is completely opposite to what democratic ideology says... we are unable to learn what others want we only learn what we want and how to tell others that this is the right thing...we are unable to give them the choice and we are unable to think about it...
Let us try and differentiate between responsibility and authority of "positions" that we have ... and when we are in a responsible position let's make sure we help them to have a safe, secure and happy life with open choices rather than having a safe, secure and happy life only if they follow our choices but otherwise we'll at least disconnect and at most destroy...

I wish my people learn it in their personal and professional life and my religious and political "leaders" may understand this too...