How do you open up your mind
How do you let new ideas find
Their way into the fossilized part of your brain
Imprinted with biased opinions that are ingrained
Deep within you, essential parts of who you are
How do you get rid of them, how do you go far
From the forces that keep your outlook narrow
How do you experience the diversity the world has to show?
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When you make an effort to step outside
Your echo chamber, get a taste of the wide
Range of human experience, you realize
How transformative it is to have your eyes
Opened to ideas diametrically different
From yours- you start seeing through a wider lens
The world and its varied inhabitants
You no longer feel your identity is threatened
By those who hold opposite views
You uphold your own and others’ right to choose
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So, why don’t you tune into a different radio station
Or watch a different news channel for experimentation
Or read a book completely different from what you read
At the very least I promise you would be intrigued
To see what the other side has to say
You might pick up fresh ideas along the way
Or start thinking along lines that are new
Even if that narrative does not resonate with you
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Go outside your echo chamber, new ideas imbibe
Form new neural networks, let your mind thrive
Passion...unbridled 