Personal Narrative: My Journey To An Open Mind

The people of this world lack many things but an open mind single handedly tops the list. I simply cannot stand close minded people that have obviously been brainwashed and programmed for generations to believe the most ridiculous ideas. What infuriates me more is fact that a few of these folks will enter positions of power varying from teaching to political office. Now with a massive set of listening ears can these pests spread or attempt to spread the most repulsive ideas and ways of life. The best track to an open mind begins with quality education presented without bias and room for discussion. Last semester I was enrolled in a diversity course of some sort where daily we discussed the social issues that plagued modern day America and …show more content…
These ideas can easily lock people in to a religion. Everybody wants to hear what they like to hear, from power of prayer to eternal life. I learned in this course that all of the top world religions share the similar structure of living a life carefully in fear that a mistake could be that difference between eternal happiness or eternal pain. Some of the religions of course are not exactly in line with the dualism ideas of others but main goal of them is to maintain relative peace. There are money common laws that include do not murder, do not steal and so on that have some root with religion. Of course there is a feeling of wrong doing when committing unjustifiable murder or robbery but religion helps place these ideas into a format of practice for large populations to follow. The practice spreads and passed from generation to generation and hopefully that descendants continue whichever peaceful ways of life they have been taught. A may stray of here and there due mental instability buy the end result is a common and moral system. However the grey in between can prove to be flooded with corruption and bad practice. As this course has taught me, religion and politics can be a deadly mix but both are for the