to fit inside your mold would be to sell myself short

turn on your tv, watch any news show, and you will be fed a biased view of our world. you will see and hear about horrible things like war, murder, etc., and you very rarely see something good on the news. for some people this is the only view of the world they will ever get. like, for instance, i've been to israel, and nothing could describe it. for me, when i think about israel, i see the rolling hills around the sea of galilee, and the beautiful stone streets in jerusalem. for someone who has never been there, they might envision the horrible scenes of war and poverty that the news portrays. two completely different visions of the same place.

two completely different views toward the same thing. so is it the rolling hills and stone streets, or the war and poverty. it's not all war and poverty, don't lie to yourself.

you have a right to your opinions, and as a friend, i'm glad you feel the need to confront me about mine. i honestly think that you know how biased your opinions are, but you ignore it. we don't have to come to an agreement about this, though it would be a hell of a lot easier if we could.

wouldn't the world be a better place with a little bit of optimistic thinking? i know that my rolling hills vision is biased, and your war and poverty vision is biased, but if both of those are wrong, then what is true about it? it is all in your perspective, and you just have such a biased opinion, that the war and poverty is dominant in what you envision. how would you know anything if you've never been there? how can you say that israel is full of war and poverty, if you've never walked on the shore of the sea of galilee at sunrise, and felt the peace and happiness that fills your body. i don't care how much you've heard or seen, you haven't been there.

you haven't,
but i have.

i'm not asking you to drop your opinion, i'm asking you to rethink it with these things in mind.

i'm cautious, and i'm not going to fuck up.