Opinion: A thousand shades of green |
Have you ever seen someone from a distance and instantly decided that you don’t like them? Perhaps they spoke with an accent or wore a certain type of clothes, but how did you make up your mind before even getting to know them? That instant assumption is based on your fear — not of that person, but the story that your mind tells you about them.
Humans most often fear what they do not know. Be it ideas, ideologies or people of those ideologies, acceptance of the unknown becomes difficult when fear becomes the guide. When we are completely unaware of something or someone, our mind starts to fill in that void of not knowing by using its own imagination.
Eventually, if our mind paints a horrible picture, we begin fearing who is not the person himself, but our........