RosieLulat

My poverty challenge has raised a few interesting debates among my friends (none of which I have been able to add my opinion to :/ ). A few of my (more pedantic) friends argued that ‘Thankyou’ could be considered an opinion as I would be choosing to be polite. I’m not quite sure I agree, though I can only say that on here so I hope they’re reading! Another idea was that I wasn’t to laugh, as that would be voicing my opinion of how funny I find something.   Any thoughts?

So far, I have found my task extremely difficult, I constantly forget and have started talking to myself. A lot. I find I get the best answers ;) and I’m the only person allowed to hear my opinions this week so I've been airing them to myself in a constant stream of mutterings . So I think an apology is needed to anyone I may have scared when sitting next to me on the bus!

Waking up this morning I began to dread the coming week, I wished I had chosen a more tangible challenge that I was less likely to forget I was doing!So I stuck my yellow badge on my top, hoping it would be enough of a reminder, and went downstairs to breakfast after refusing to comment on whether my sister’s bum looked big in her new trousers ;).

Breakfast proved to be another minefield of opinions. Did I want 1 sugar or 2 in my tea? Did I like the new strawberry jam? What did I think of the special offers in the junk mail? I suddenly realised that I will have very little to say this week, and I certainly can’t speak without thinking over what I am about to say (several times). I am finding it difficult to communicate without using opinions, or turning into a mime artist - as I have discovered that actions dont' seem to lead to as many opinions as words do. 

This week I am trying not to voice my opinion about anything. Love it, or hate it I must hold my tongue. I am doing this in solidarity with all those people who cannot have a voice, or who are not listened too. So often their situation and the change that needs to happen is taken out of their control. I want my MP, someone who really does have the power to make a change and who can weild lots of power to think what this challenge means.