Opinions (A short note)

It's great to have opinions on pretty much everything around us. Opinions reflect how we think, how aware we are, who we are as individuals, almost define what it's like to work with us, be around or live with and most importantly, how we perceive facts, happenings and what we make of all that information. 

A deeper dive into opinions would have you know what categorizes a certain topic as being 'sensitive' or not. A general, popular take on it - a topic which when addressed without care, might hurt someone's sentiments. 

Now, it's correct to say why an opinion might hurt someone's sentiments if it was, in any way, an attempt to generalize something about a group of people - because that 'opinion' might have some exceptions and given the diversity of minds, it'd be wrong to tag or put titles or labels.

That's exactly what I gave another thought. Why offense/defense over an opinion? 
(Midway disclaimer: Now this is just a thought, a reasoning, if you may)
I think we somehow end up attaching our opinions on a subject (that's ever-changing) a little too much to ourselves and disagreement to that opinion is taken as disagreement to our entire being (which is not the case, much obviously). An extended damage of this - coming across as someone who's not capable of change; who's not open-minded enough to be challenged with facts/logic. (And trust me, that's not what you'd want to come across as even for a short while, let alone a lifetime.)

This is what brings me to two of my all time favorite quotes-

DISAGREEMENT IS NOT DISRESPECT.

And,

AGREE TO DISAGREE.