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Writer's pictureAimee Reese

Forming an opinion about someone based on what others say is not always the way to form your own opi


Knowing people and creating good environments for interactions can be great because it is one of the human habits to be very social and seek company. The concepts of our new world today have enhanced our ability to know more people and knew more about people. It is becoming easier to meet people from far and near for many different purposes ranging from social interaction to a business communication, and there are multiple suggestions of people you may know, or you may want to know on our social media platforms. More so, knowing people in our immediate environment is one thing that still ranks as very important, and we all need someone or something to make an introduction to every interaction and relationship which we get.

People are made up of what their mind-set is made of. This fact simplifies the common situation we experience where people talk about other people both in good and bad ways. Many of these situations are mostly gossips, and others are something that should look like a motivation or life story of a rich fellow in the neighborhood. Many people build a mind-set that only analyses other people, and these happen to be the people with the worst kind of mindsets. They are usually afraid or incapable of discussing wonderful ideas that should create great events or innovations. They mostly construct their opinion about people from a distance, this may be because they lack enough courage to approach the persons in question and create a healthy interaction with them.

Opinions can be seen as the ideas that people have to contribute to a matter or a person, and it is usually an incomplete presumption that can be either right or wrong. The opinions that come from people are always formed from the perspective of their mindsets, just like the popular saying that people tend to see things, not in the way the thing is, but the way they are themselves. So, the way I am in my mind contributes to a majority of the way my opinion about anything will be.

It is wrong to form opinions about people or things from a distance; just like we already discussed, it shows a cowardly personality. People who talk about other people so often, try to use their words to paint a false identity of both the events and the persons they talk about. They easily run out of words, but they just have to continue talking about orders to keep the attention on themselves. Their opinions about their subjects are mostly false; and if they are correct in some little detail, then it is just scarce. You should not create an opinion from the things people say about other people, not even the little details that seem correct.

There are better ways that could be followed to gather the right information about a person, a situation or a thing. The best is to politely and carefully approach the person in question, or the subject of the situation, and create a close ranged interaction. A comfortable interaction with both parties that will expose some real facts to you can be a reasonable basis to form an opinion. In many cases, people who dare to carry out this process do not care about sharing their findings with a crowd. They prefer to be confidential and even plan towards complementing their new friend.


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