Is it the truth or an opinion?
The other night someone said to my husband “I tell the honest truth and that’s why nobody likes me.” I dont know if that is the exact words but close to it. Anyways, when he told me what this person had said, I thought how sad that someone thinks that nobody likes them. That world must be lonely. Then later that night when everyone was in bed, I started thinking (I guess that is my thinking time). Sometimes people’s truth is actually their own opinion. Does that make sense? This happens alot in the knitting world or even in my world. My mom and I will be talking about our knitting (as we do every night at 10:30pm)and I will say something along the lines of “Well this is how I did it.” I will give her my explaination and she will say something along the sorts of “No that isnt how you do it, this is how you do it.” Well then I get all confused. After many nights of us trying to explain ourselves and our way of doing something, I came to the conculsion that everyone does things differently. With knitting there is no right or wrong way. My mom was talking to someone last week about how she used to crochet wrong. She did this for years. She was self taught so that was the only way she knew how to do it. As funny as it sounds, when she crocheted it still turned out. So in the end her wrong was still right.
I listen to people in the store sometimes telling other people how to knit or how to change colors or dont hold the needles this way, hold them that way. Or you are doing this wrong or with the wrong color. Really there is no wrong. Now most of the time the person being told that they are wrong will smile and gladly take their advice or their opinion and move on. Everyone was taught different ways. That’s what makes this world so beautiful.
Now out in the real world (not the knitting world)
The frustrating part about this whole right or wrong thing or the truth or opinion thing is that people are so bent on being right. They want so badly to be right that they will pick a fight or hurt someones feeling to prove their point. But the part I dont understand is that most of the time their way of truth is their opinion. And everyone has one. Now of course there are things in life that are right or wrong and we all know the common sense part of things to make the world go round. And everyone was raised different and taught different things and what makes things right for me, might make them wrong for someone else. But does that make my upbringing right and yours wrong? NO!!! Of course not! Does it make it wrong that when my mom adds a new color of yarn to her hat that she does what we call the “spit and twist”..(haha that sounds funny) and I do the Russian Join. We both do things a little different and that is ok. It’s ok to be different. It is ok for all of us to have an opinion and to share it. But I dont feel like it is right for a person to take their opinion and make it their truth and live by it, only to judge others that dont live in their world. It’s a beautiful world out there people. Get out and enjoy it! Love it and live in it. Share and gather! And most of all be yourself and who you are! Knit the way you want and live in the moment!