Have you ever had an experience or gone through something in your life, yourself or maybe someone you love, that forced you to fundamentally rethink and reevaluate something you previously felt pretty strongly about?

It is pretty much human nature to form opinions and views on things but it is also pretty much human nature to not always, or not at all, understand things we have had no real experience of or with. E.G. You were strongly opposed to stem cell research until your child was diagnose with an illness that had no real cure or treatment but stem cell research looked promising. You thought you knew what kind of people ended up on food stamps, or became homeless until you lost your job, or got sick and amassed a lot of medical bills, you had strong opinions about homosexuality and then it turned out that one of your children was gay, you had opinions about mental illness and then someone you loved was diagnosed with a serious mental illness like schizophrenia. Or a woman you loved was raped in the parking lot of a club or on some dark, lonely road waiting for AAA to come and change her tire. Well, anyway, those are more than a few examples, you get the idea.