Marco+H's+Op-Ed+Article

An opinion about opinions

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God I hate opinions. Not that mine are better or are not annoying at times also. I just hate judgment and loud mouth opinions at eight o’ clock in the morning. If an opinion is going to be made, at least make it count and think before speaking. I have found that different aged opinions give different feels. Children: Have cute stances on their favorite super hero or their favorite character from Cartoon network Teenagers: Are annoying taller children who have die hard stances. These stances are no longer about characters; however, these stances now often use the word “like” way too much. Adults: Either intelligent stubborn opinions and stances that cannot/will not be proven wrong even when it is clearly proven wrong OR: They just do not care enough to have an opinion and continue living their lives. I know these three examples of age groups could go more into depth; and I know there are exceptions, but this is just a simple observation of the people I’ve seen and witnessed. Two people just yesterday were trying to figure out what grinds my gears. I thought about it for a short while after they kept saying things hoping to get mad which I never really do. I finally responded with, “You know what makes me angry? When people judge others without actually knowing that other person.” No, they didn’t go judging people right after that, but it did make me think even more about what grinds my gears. I thought back to when I first started writing this. While Mr. Geib was talking about this assignment and said the instructions I immediately started writing. The reason why I had spontaneously started writing was because of the day before in English. For those of you who do not know about second period AP English it is full of very intelligent and loud students. I myself lack the ability to be loud or out spoken in class. When I speak now, I speak for all my other fellow classmates who are as quiet as a mouse. During the discussions only about seven students in a class of thirty are actually heard. Sometimes the things some of them say are not well thought out because they are simply angrily ranting at the person who disagrees with them. It annoys me; the entire pointless loudmouth talking of opinions and examples which have already been said. We understand you feel strongly about something, just stop talking and let others have a chance to have their opinions heard and recognized.