What have you changed your mind about? Why?

This doesn’t answer your question.. I don’t have the time to outline everything I have been wrong about.

But, I was wrong about almost everything I believed 10 years ago. And now I know that what I believe now will be wrong in ten years.

That would be a great quote, john. :-)

I thought of my uncle that he was so weird. His way of doing things, his acting, really weird. But now, I realize that he’s the best guy in the world, since I started to imagine his life. He had such a very hard life, and he doesn’t want to be like that.

I really admire him now, he is my example. I wish I could handle everything in my life as he does. It’s a great guy.

What I’ve changed my mind most about is that I now realize experts don’t necessarily know anything. I learned this by cross-examining a few of them during trials. When it comes right down to it, we’re all guessing, some of us just have letters behind our names that suggest our guesses are better.

Someone asked a bunch of us at a party last year “What did you want to be when you grew up?” For many years, I’d have said, “To change or expand the way people experience life”; but instead I blurted, truthfully, “To be loved.”

I am loved, so I’ve accomplished my life goal. But I couldn’t possibly have admitted it any sooner.

I used to value other people mostly depending on how interesting they were. Now, I think it’s much, much more important to be kind than to be interesting.

Fashion…. many times… when a new fashion comes out, I’m usually not too keen on it.. but after awhile it grows on me… and then the next thing I know, I’m loving the new fashion. not just styles, but colors too..

I am a self-proclaimed “progressive Christian” who had begun to lose interest in Christianity due to its having suffered a hostile take-over by self-righteous neo-conservative haters. It didn’t look like Christ to me any more. Being a Christian was becoming a source of embarrassment to me, not the slightest bit uplifting, ennobling or encouraging.

Then, in May this year, we found a church in San Jose: Wesley United Methodist full of people who aren’t gay-bashers (but don’t have to declare themselves a reconciling congregation, either), who are full of hope (without being unrealistic), who are generous (and able to be so because they are also quite thrifty). Their faithful and loving outlook on life has reminded me what Christianity is supposed to be.

My career. Now obviously I’m a college student, so changing majors is in the description. But I never sat down and thought about all the things I “wanted to be when I grew up” and changed my mind about later.