Opinions & Silence

Now, I know what some of your are thinking, “How can you be silent if you have to voice your opinion?” The answer, you don’t have to voice your opinion.

After hearing a small group of teenage females talking while standing behind them in line to check out at the store. Now, I wasn’t trying to eavesdrop, but I did over hear them talking about sex.  No biggie, we’re all grown, I’m a mature guy, and I know that reproduction has literally been going on since the beginning of time. The angle that the conversation took was what took me back a little. One girl, looked to be no more than 17, asked, “If I think a guy I’m sleeping with unprotected is sleeping with someone else and we’re not in a relationship, what should I do?” One of her friends said something along the lines of, “As long as the sex is good and he doesn’t give you anything, keep sleeping with him, ” and the trio continued to talk bouncing off opinions and they checked out and left the store.

Now, I’m far from a morals expert, but I just felt like the friend just steered the girl in the wrong direction. Sometimes, it’s just best to keep some things to yourself. And this can work in many different situations and scenarios. Sometimes no opinion is the best opinion a person can have and by staying silent, that person remains neutral and other people can think fro themselves, because I hope that that girl did not take her friend’s advice.

“Shoot Your Shot”

This past week overhearing some freshman guys talking, I noticed that a few of them used the phrase, “Shoot your shot” a lot. After hearing it so much I finally decided to ask what it meant and where it came from. The guy I asked said he first heard the phrase in Baton Rouge and the phrase is supposedly a shortened version of the Wayne Gretzky quote, “You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take”. After talking to the group of guys for a while, I understood that the saying was more than just slang. Sometimes in life you really do have to shoot your shot.

Want to see if that new burger place is worth it? “Shoot your shot”. Is your friend worried about sliding in someone’s DM’s? Tell him or her, “Shoot your shot”. Is your gas meter on E, but you have somewhere to be?  DO NOT, “Shoot your shot”.