First time blogging ever!!!

I too haven’t really thought about the right to think, It’s almost advertised as part of our country. “America! Where you can pursue you own happiness, you can practice what religion you want, and you can say what you want!” Isn’t “ You can think what you want!” Implied by that?

Putting that thought aside, one thing really stuck me when thinking about the right to think, what about habits? If you think about it, habits are things that you do without really thinking about it. So how much of the habits that were already doing our own? Are these habits we’ve picked up from our parents? Our friends? Books that we read? Society? Maybe they are harmless, like eating your favorite food first at a meal. Maybe you are in the habit of buying a brand of toothpaste because that’s what your parents buy. Are these really important? Maybe not, but maybe enough to examine why you are doing something before you do it.

Also most habits are made when you are a kid, and like Jinwoo mentioned, kids are heavily influenced by the people around them, that’s where the whole “upbringing or DNA” argument comes from. So is our right to think really all ours to begin with? Who knows.

Anyway! I’m happy that I read this book so now I’m more critical of things that I do without really thinking about them. Now I can go out and use my right to think to umm.....think about things YAH! ^o^