If you understand how different people’s ideas shape the world we live in, you will stop stressing yourself over wanting someone to reason with you, especially when they are clearly obsessed with a particular idea.
For every idea you stand for, there will always be two sides to it: the side that agrees with you and the one that is against it. If someone’s idea is deeply rooted in religion, society, or personal belief, don’t stress yourself over trying to change it. If you find people who reason the way you do, stick with them. At least that way, you know you’re not alone.
Challenging ideas
Monogamy came from someone’s idea, and so did polygamy. Prostitution, often called the oldest profession, exists because someone saw it as acceptable, while another saw it as wrong and chose to preach against it. Someone believed the world could not exist without a supreme power and created religion. From the oldest religions to the newer ones, the pattern continued. Then another person questioned it: Why pray to something you’ve never seen? How sure are you of its existence? Someone believes humans deserve total freedom; another believes human activity should be regulated to prevent abuse.
Every ideology we accept or reject today was once a solution to a human problem, based on someone’s idea of what that solution should be. Over time, people follow these ideas and then begin to notice new problems within them. Then, someone else, with a different perspective, rises to challenge it. When belief becomes strong enough, people try to enforce their ideas on others, convinced they hold the absolute truth. But not everyone is comfortable with that, and so another idea is born in resistance.
This cycle continues.
Creating new ideas
Humans will always create new ideas as the world changes, even when those new problems were created by previous solutions. Some ideas will last longer than others, depending on how relevant they remain. But human emotions, greed, pain, anger, and hope will always push people to create something new, while others will try to tear it down because it doesn’t solve their own problems.
People respond to what they relate to, and that’s simply how it is. It will keep going, again and again. Many things we believe are perfect solutions today will eventually be questioned, challenged, and replaced by something new, something that will, in turn, create its own problems.
Absolute truth
There is no absolute solution in the world, except perhaps a world without humans, because human desires are insatiable. No one is truly submissive to an idea; they are only comfortable with it for now. It takes very little for that comfort to break and for them to change their mind.
One of the biggest mistakes a person can make is believing their idea is the absolute truth or the final solution. It never is, and it never will be. There will always be another person with a different perspective, someone who sees the flaw in that idea, creates a new solution, and unknowingly begins the cycle all over again.
By Salimat Zakariyah
