Different opinions do not always have to end in conflict.
When I was in 9th grade, I had a friend who always invited me to the movies. One day, we found some new and interesting movies: Dredd - an action sci-fi move - and Hotel Transylvania - an animation. Both movies were very different, and my friend who liked action sci-fi movies wanted to watch Dredd. But I wanted to watch
Hotel Transylvania because I loved animations. Usually, we both chose similar movies, or could watch two movies in one day. But this time, we could only choose one movie to watch. That day, we had a bad argument, and it did not end well. Then, we realized that there was another movie that we both could watch, and it was playing at the theater near by. The movie was “Cloud Atlas”, a story about the connection between people and events around the world. I had seen the trailer, so did he. So I suggested that we both watch this movie instead. He seemed to be interested, so we went to watch it that day after our classes. After finished watching movie, he said it was very good, a lot better than he thought, and he enjoyed the movie as I did. We discussed and shared our thoughts about this movie, and had
fun engaging in conversation and sharing our different views about the same movie.
This incident gave me a different view on disagreement. Disagreements do not have
to be bad or unpleasant. We may not get to do what either one of us want to do,
but, this doesn’t mean we don’t get to have fun. My friend and I found a
solution to our disagreement, and it led us to a new experience that we both
truly enjoyed.