Narrow and Open Minded

I think that the person who is narrow – minded is an untutored one, because the narrow mind led always to the intellectual prejudice. The latter, is something which is acquired and not by nature. We have acquired this from what we are told from different sources like parents, grandfathers and our social atmosphere owing to our origin, root, cultural and historical background in which we born and get our education in. So, we grow up saturated with a set of traditions, stereotypes and habits that belong to our root, (Which is normal in fact). When we come across some attitudes that we do not know them as we have been educated according to special rules, we get scared, and we feel like somebody wants to attack us. In order to defend ourselves or our ego, the first thing that we can do is to reject this or to consider it as a wrong thing or something which is taboo and we should not even mention it. To some extent our reaction towards issues can be normal because when our environment thought us our traditions and habits to apply them, they always said that everything which is different from issues that you have learnt from us is wrong and we grow up with this idea. Now, as we are human being we born and we have discovered that this creator cannot limit himself on just issues that he knows, and the proof is the huge technological issues that the human being has discovered, to the revolutions that persons made, persons who were born as slaves and they did not accept the fact, they struggled for freedom, writers, poets and revolutionists who did not limit themselves in what they had, because they believe that there is no limit towards the human creation. If it is true that we are limited and that God have created us limited, then there will be no place to imagination in the thinking of any human being, or we are still living in the Neolithic period. These persons that we were talking about were not genius, were not supermen or foreigners coming from another planet not the Erath that we are living in. They were just open-minded persons. They refused to limit themselves within the same triangle in which they grow up within it: root, environment and people. In fact, we should get rid of the expression: “people are enemies towards issues that they do not know”. How can I judge something that I do not know what is it and say no just because I have been educated that I should accept just issues that I know and I accustom myself to, while rejecting other things. Being open minded does not mean to accept everything as it is. The open minded is the one who is saturated by his roots, culture and traditions. But, at the same time he should always have the curiosity of knowing the new things and to interact with any new things. This does not mean that he will get rid of his origins. On the contrary, then, he will be able to compare between himself and others, he will be able to know the differences and at least if he cannot be like the other, he will accept his difference. They will accept each other by their differences and similarities. They will understand each other and they will arrive to a truth saying that the differences between them because they are from different origins, cultures and traditions will not derange them. Another point that we should take into account is that throughout history and time doctrines may change because doctrines are not religious or sacred issues because these are the only issues that can be changed. Doctrines are set of beliefs and principles in different fields established by group of people to be their base that they follow all of them to deal with each other and to deal with another group from another origin. As time and circumstances change with time, these doctrines may also change, because in origin they were built according to special circumstances. I cannot keep wearing the same clothes when I was 5 years old till 20 years old. It is impossible and illogic. This is just a simple example.  Now, the open minded person for me is the one who realizes to build a persona and intellectual base through which he can be able to understand first, to interact second, to take what he is convinced in and to reject what he is no in need of and finally to come up with what he wants, far from any kind of internal or exterior effects. To conclude, before talking freedom, before talking our similarities, before talking our differences, before talking our revolutions, before talking our opposition, struggling, criticizing others and talk all these big issues let’s start from the beginning of all of this let’s talk our minds.