Change of opinion

Hi SV! I have also learnt a lot since I joined this site and each day adds to my knowledge and experience and needless to say that am still learning. However, my opinion to a particular point/discussion/topic does not change or say have not changed over a period of time. What I would have stated some two years on an issue, I may state the same today. To check and prove my point, sometimes, by mistake I respond to a post twice and when I tally both my responses, I find that both the responses are more or less similar. I do not change my stand every now or then or with different mylotters. However, it may happen sometimes, that if am in a lighter mood or in funny mood, then I may write something funny.

I think I am a fairly consistent person as far as my responses go. I feel I may be saying the same thing over again but I am now unsure. I need to check them up. What do you find SV?

Well all I can say is I am the same after the 5 years guess I am set in my ways If I have nothing to say I skip that post I hope you still tell the truth as when ya first started . and your right people need to tell if they have changed their point of few for the years.

Sometimes I start a discussion and change my opinion about the topic when I read some of the responses. If the people who respond have some very good points, their responses sometimes make me realize that things aren't as black and white as I imagined and I get another perspective. I think it is very interesting and useful to read the opinions of people who disagree with me. I joined MyLot 3 years ago and I haven't reread the responses that I wrote in the beginning, but it could be interesting to see if I have changed my opinion about many of the topics. I think it great that we are able to learn new things through discussions and if I see someone express an opinion that is different from the things they have said in the past it is possbible that they lying or trying to please everyone, but it doesn't have to be that way. Maybe they have simply changed their opinion because they have learned something new.

Hi SViswan! I think that is a part of life altogether. As we grow and learn, we change. If I was on here ten years ago..there would be great differences in the way I thought about certain things or answered certain discussions. I have learned so much here. I think there are a lot of things about me that have changed. I have a deeper understanding of certain things that I didn't have when I first come here..thanks to the people who have taught me here. Everyone has been very kind when I have asked questions about cultures and people. I try to return the favor too. I think that it is very common that people once say...never me...and life has a funny way of putting people in certain positions that make them reconsider. I never say never me..it is an invitation for a situation...lol.

Hi SViswan If you could trust me, I was thinking about this and me since yesterday and I had 99.9% plans of starting this discussion as my next. I have beel feeling this same thing for me - If you were following my previous few discussions, I have always advocated peace and harmony and pleasant discussions. But unfortunately over the last month (since my ill-fated-trip to Hyderabad), I have been finding myself almost against to whatever I had and have on mind. Call it bad health and its effects or anything but yes, I am guilty and feeling bad. They say Change is inevitable irrespective of whether you like it or not. I am not sure whether I am going to do a re-visit to all my participated discussions for putting up my new thoughts as I know these thoughts are temporary as they are not me but results of something called a bad time. For other responses, I am 99.9% sure, they do not need any change as of now... as I still vouch for them

I have been here a long time as well. I always try to be moderate in my opinion, so that I can be comfortably consistent. If an old discussion of mine comes up and I need to change or add something, I will do it. Some people are complaining about other users who do seem to change very rapidly, almost as if they are trying to please everyone, or trying to irritate everyone. For some it is much more than just a change of opinion. I do admit that part of it can be as you describe it, however, just a growing and maturing.

It is good to change and grow. I am certainly in a very different situation now than I was several years ago when I first started to play on myLot. But I truly do not know to what extent my answers would have changed. When I seem my old responses, I think "Wow, I must have had more time then!"

Dear friend, Here I could get many ideas from those responds and discussions I read. This is part of self development and on other side earnings for me. My way of thinking had changed from participated discussions in here, I get new new knowledge, better suggestions, various other contributions that had helped me a lot.

Hi Sviswan, Life is constant change and different experiences as we go through life do tend to change our opinions on certain subjects. I like you have been here for a few years now so I am sure if I went back to some older discussions of mine I would feel totally different about some now. I have never gone back into them though to give that different view point. I find it hard enough responding and catching up with current discussions.My motto though is never say never lol. huggles. Ellie :D

I read somewhere that people had formed their opinions by the age of 40 and that these remain unchanged for the rest of their lives. I am considerably over 40 and in truth probably haven't changed much in that time. But my attitudes have. I am fairly easy going but I do find myself suffering fools less easily. But I am not sure whether this comes out in my dealings with them, or just in my mind. Certainly I do not go back over my old discussions - and they are all old because I no longer post discussions here. In fact I have almost zero recollection of what I have posted! Sometimes I have forgotten them within a day of posting. I always viewed mylot as a place to park what I was thinking currently and unless it was deeply personal, which was hardly ever, I tended to fire off relatively flippant and lighthearted posts. When respondiong I might say "I used to think..." but beyond that I'd not say much at all.

I have to agree to this. In a way myLot has helped me grow as an individual. I feel more mature, and in charge of my life. I cant say I am completely calm. But I do feel a whole lot better than what I was feeling when I joined myLot. And yes, myLot has made me review my opinions. I have realized that there are many good people out there. It takes time but people are loving and caring, and not everybody is out to get me. And that it was pure coincidence that I was surrounded by wrong people which made me distrust everybody. Certainly, life does feel a whole lot better though I still have a long way to go.

This is very interesting! Although I haven't gone back to my old posts or responses, I'm sure there would be consistencies. Although you call it a change within oneself, I might call it something different. It could just be a definition of views. Whereas one might not really have an opinion on a particular thing, it becomes tweaked or defined over the years as one keeps answering the same type of discussion.

Change is constant. Sometimes, you change you opinion on different matters depending on what you've been through. At times you change your opinion because you don't know back then what you know now. I don't think it's bad when a person changes their opinion as time passes by. It's part of growing up and a part of life. Going back to your discussions must make you feel nostalgic. You can see how much you've changed and how much you've grown as a person.

Hello Dear S Viswan! I am also with this site almost since its inception! I agree what ever you have said in your discussion! 'Change' is inevitable part of life! Things are changing from time to time! Change is part of life and it brings the evolution! There have been lot of changes in human life right from the stone age to today's modern life so accordingly the thoughts of the human beings have got changed! Ten years back the concept of mobile phones was almost new ti India! No body could even dream that one can talk on phone with out any line attached to it! No body could imagine one can talk on phone while looking at the image of the caller! but today it is happenings. The opinions then what people have got changed with time! Thus with changing times,things are also getting changed and we also change by the process of new things brought upon by these changes and we call it as learning! And this learning makes us to gather new things or help us to acquire new knowledge and having acquired new knowledge we tend to change our opinions! For a person living in a village the most speedy vehicle will be a bullock cart as he has never seen anything moving much faster than this! But he will change his opinion the moment he come to know that there are many vehicles which can move faster than the bullock cart! Thus in our regular life also we keep on learning many a things by going through various experiences and we tend to change our opinions! I think this is a normal thing ! To keep oneself updated we need to change our opinions otherwise we will be stagnant and there won't be any progress in our life! I have changed a lot here on Mylot and perhaps with the time I have changed my opinion about a topic many a times and this I feel perfectly normal and I am comfortable with it! Thanks for the discussion! It was thought provoking one and I liked participating in it!

It is part of the learning process. As you learn, you grow up and become wiser. It is only those who learn nothing who stay the same. My whole outlook on life has changed in the last 10 years.

hummmm I would guess that some younger folks might change more than some older folks, not to say that older ones might not discover they needed to change their opinions too. I know that what I felt at 25 had changed by 30, but there have been fewer changes between 50 and 55... I would hope that other people would realize that if someone responded one way some time ago in a discussion and a different way more recently, that they might've changed their mind or maybe just "upgraded" their knowledge.

I agree that we do change over time, I know I have! Our posts can come across inconsistent over a period although I have come across some that are inconsistent from one day to the next! I don’t generally look back on past comments because I am limited for time but there have been occasions when I have come across something I wrote a while ago and I cannot believe I penned it! Sometimes it is because it is a really good piece but sometimes it is not so good, lol!

The only thing that is constant is change and that does not mean every thing changes.I have not kept a tab on the kind of responses I have given to topics that have reappeared. It would be nice though if I would know whether I would respond differently now. This could be possible as time moves, one becomes wiser in one's ways.

Everything is changing,so is a person.In different time and different places,people will change their ideas sometimes.