There’s this constant pressure, like we have to have an opinion on everything.
We’re expected to know it all, to have something to say, to have a stance on every issue.

But the truth is, we don’t know everything.
We’re only seeing a small part of the picture, and yet..
we’re so quick to criticize, quick to judge, quick to assume.

We sit on the sidelines, commenting on things we’ve never truly experienced.
We talk about people, systems, decisions,
as if we’ve walked in their shoes,
as if we know the whole story.

But we don’t.
We haven’t lived their lives, fought their battles, or made their choices.
We only see fragments — the parts we want to see.

And the irony?
The very people we criticize, we’re often just like them.
We too have our flaws, our blind spots, our struggles hidden behind our opinions.

Why do we feel the need to always be right?
Why do we assume that our perspective is the only one worth hearing?
Maybe, instead of criticizing, we should listen more, understand more.

Maybe it’s time to realize that sometimes silence is more powerful than a quick opinion.
We don’t always have to speak.
We don’t always have to judge.
We don’t always have to know.

Maybe, just maybe,
the most meaningful thing we can do is acknowledge that we don’t know everything.
And that’s okay.

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