Be careful GIVING someone YOUR OPINION

    If someone DOESN'T ASK for YOUR OPINION then..... Keep YOUR OPINIONS to yourself.

    You may THINK that GIVING YOUR OPINION is something that THEY WANT TO HEAR or it MAY HELP THEM...BUT

    YOUR OPINION can really make them FORM AN UNFAVORABLE OPINION of you.

   And unfortunately being older I KNOW that a SIMPLE OPINION YOU EXPRESSED years ago can be something that THEY NEVER FORGET.

    Which can then make it IMPOSSIBLE to CHANGE THEIR OPINION OF YOU for a LIFETIME.

    I REMEMBER when I was young there was ALWAYS a COUPLE OF RELATIVES and FAMILY FRIENDS who were always QUIETLY OBSERVING the CONVERSATIONS.

    They NEVER seemed to PUT IN THEIR TWO CENTS or APPEARED to NOT HAVE AN OPINION ON ANYTHING.

   They would just SIT THERE QUIETLY AND SMILE and occasionally nodded their head.

    Now I GET WHY they ONLY LISTENED. That is why everyone looked forward to seeing them and NO DISAGREEMENTS over their DIFFERENCES OF OPINIONS.

    Because they had NEVER EXPRESSED THEIR OPINIONS OUT LOUD...so THEREFORE they weren't EVER JUDGED BY THEIR OPINIONS.

   YOUR OPINION is the only one that truly matters but it it also MATTERS that SOMETIMES YOU just NEED to KEEP YOUR OPINIONS TO YOURSELF. 

    JUST like in a poker game in the GAME OF LIFE You got to KNOW WHEN TO HOLD THEM.... WHEN TO FOLD THEM....AND WHEN TO WALK AWAY QUIETLY.