It's Just My Opinion and Other Time Wasters

Someone once said that I write in declarative sentences, and that’s true. I really dislike all the bobbing and weaving of “this is just my opinion” and “maybe I’m wrong, but” and all the other ways people try to avoid offense. Of course it’s “my opinion,” I wrote the damn thing–who else’s opinion would it be? Of course I might be wrong–is anybody infallible? It’s such a waste of time. Get in, say the thing as directly as possible, and get out. The amount of time I’ve spent in a lifetime trying (mostly unsuccessfully) to assuage the feelings of others was just a waste.

“Speak what you think to-day in words as hard as cannon balls, and to-morrow speak what tomorrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict every thing you said to-day.” ― Ralph Waldo Emerson