Losing your opinions.

Most people want you to have opinions.

It’s an important part of social interaction.

If you agree with others, it feels safe, it validates and enforces who you think you are.

And if you disagree, it can either feel unsafe, or it can give you some sort of personal psychological power because it somehow underlines the idea of being a specific person with a very distinct worldview.

But what if all of that changes?

It can be confusing and difficult to lose your interest in opinions, I know that firsthand.

For years now, the whole system of rock-solid and mostly emotional ideas about almost anything and everything has been eroding within me.

It has never been a goal to be opinion-less or to somehow be above opinions and judgments (which would make it an enviable ‘spiritual’ trait somehow), but it’s just happening.

I can’t find the ground for most of my opinions anymore.

A lot of them simply don’t feel real, or true, or important, and most definitely ‘me’.

And although that is really liberating in many ways, I also had to learn a new way of interacting with other people in a way that is not too confusing or insulting for them.