That humans and human relations are the most complicated things in the world must be the grand dowager of all understatements.

Yes, humans beings are just so complicated. Yet, things appear clearer to me by the day as to how human relations should be handled.

(WARNING: Haphazard ramblings. Read at your own risk)
Make your views heard but don't impose them on others. Don't pose your expectations on them either. Everyone has different value systems, beliefs, likings, temperaments. There are hardly any rights or wrongs in this world, just different perspectives. Just because you think you're right doesn't mean that you are.

Eg: Monogamy is a prized possession for many in our society but a person who practices monogamy may be a laughing stock in polygamous societies. (But one might argue monogamy is mired by very liberal thoughts now. Suddenly, it has become cool to be a divorcee and an adulterer.) So a person whom you think committed a grievous crime could just be a victim of circumstances. A pawn in the game of conventions and norms. A person who is born into a wrong society, era and family. Someone who refuses to be conditioned.

Bottomline:
Be open-minded. Be accepting and tolerant. Live and let live. Take things easy. Everyone has his/her right to live and think the way they choose to and we're only responsible for own well-being. Let people be responsible for theirs because we really don't know any better. Don't let our egos and our illogical need to feel superior get in the way. There really isn't a need to. And someone who practices that, to me, is the hallmark of a truly confident, self-assured individual.

Conversely, we have the right to live the way we want, without subjugation of any kind. Yes, we should strive to design our lives and imprint them with our personal, distinctive strokes. We should have the courage to live, without fearing how others might perceive us. Don't do things simply because others say them to be right. Do it because it feels right to you.

Caveat: Hmmm, most importantly, do no evil. Because like what Alicia Keys sang in her song "Karma", what goes around comes around. What goes up must come down.

Signing off,
A surrendered being who has decided to let life teach her whatever it wants, wherever, however.

Ommmpphhhh.