Freedom to have different opinions.

One thing im really grateful for is the way my parents rasied me to know that its okay to have different opinions then someone else. They also taught me to respect other opinions even if i didnt agree in any way to them. I have always been able to have the kind of relationship with my parents growing up that it was okay to disagree with them. Growing up i often didnt agree with my parents and they me. But i was always taught that my voice was important and they listened even if they didnt agree. In my life right now i see that sometimes other people were not rasied that way that as a child they were never allowed another opinion other then there fathers. Even as an adult they are still not allowed that rightly honor. To try and voice a different opinion in even a conversion would create that person to have a rage that just isnt worth that person trying to have there own opinion. I find that really sad, i see that as a flaw in what could have been a great relationship over the years. But when its one sided what good is it? I have been the brunt of it also from certain people who were also rasied with the one viewed opinion. Even to the point that over the weekend i was told on a public place that It was a bunch of bull shit!!. I am not upset by that, i belive everyone has the right to disagree with another. (but a perfect example how some react if you dont share the same opions). It was really okay for her to think that but usually you need to act a little more mature. lol. I respect everyones opinions even if there not my own. It makes me more grateful for the fact that i was raised the way i was and that i was allowed to have my own opinions. No one has to agree with others but we all have the freedom to have our own and to disgree also. How we react to others not agreeing with us is what makes the person not the fact that we dont share the same opinions.
I know my daughters this past weekend have had there eyes widen by this in a different way. We have rasied them the same way and boy do we often not share the same opinions but they have always been important to us to let them have there own opinions and we love the strong people they have become. But this thing that affected them is also the result of people not accepting that someone else might have a different opinion then them. And then to tag them is just unthinkable. It would be like me writing something about someone and tagging there daughters, its unthinkable and certainly does not make the person behind it look very bright. (the saddest thing is tho is what lesson is this she is teaching her own kids, makes me shudder). Its just sad i feel. How strange would a world be if we all had the same opinion. And for someone never to allow another to have an opinion other then theres is pretty much what hitler tried to do. Its just a way to control people and never to let them think for themselves. I count my blessings everyday for the parents i had. I know i am the person i am because they let me be me and thats how my children will be. No one has to agree with me and i dont have to agree with anyone else. But together we can respect each other and still get along. Of course only if both are able to see that. But again im grateful for the many friends and family members i have and the wonderful hubby i have. Yes we dont always all have the same opinions but our love for each other is so much stronger then that and love is also letting the other person have there say and listening to them. Giving advice is very different then not allowing someone to even voice there opinions.
(i treat this blog as a journal more then a blog as many of you know).
Thanks everyone for the support you gave me and my girls these past few days. Hopefully the people behind these trials will find what they need to in there lifes and let us just use our time and engery to put it where it needs to be. With our children and with my mother.