I will propose dinner to a lady,whom never met before,as she looked, intelligent enough, to have dinner with me. Usually 1 out of 20 ones, would turn out to be very dumb, and you curse yourself for inviting her over.
Opposite to "open minded" is..... "close minded" to be born and grow up, under a racial system, where the color of your skin determines your statue in society.
Black S.A friends known from birth.??? i'll take a guess. NONE. As kids, from birth,the first S.A person they recognised,was the black S.A. house maid. And that applied to 99.9% of the white SA population, similar to what was in USA,before the USA blacks, won their equal rights.-
Everybody has a past. some distance,some others short one. Past is past for both in a relationship. therefore is best to cherish a new relationship, and forget past ones.
The main thing is. Is the OP of the thread handling his/her thread??? Usually NOT. So the respondents on a thread start corresponding between themselves, while the OP of the thread find's him/her self in cloud NINE.
RE: mental health
The question is.People born with mental disorder,can they be FULLY curable???
And the amswer up to now,according to the experts is a big,
NO