We’re all a little bit confused these days. We love to get riled up, to get ‘triggered’ as they say, to get offended, to get outraged. But then we run off to talk about the crazy things we heard with people that agree with us and who share our same opinions.
Is that fun?
It does help calm the nerves. It soothes the soul and uplifts us in our rightness.
But it does get a little dull. Or, at least, you’d think it would.
What if… we instead had reasonable conversations with those people that we disagreed with? Would that get us anywhere? Could we hear what the other side says? Could we listen to another perspective? We certainly don’t need to agree with it. We don’t have to change our minds all the time. But we might find we understand things more clearly. We might find that the challenge is refreshing.
Or do we want boring conversations ONLY!
Yes, that’s probably it.
Then we can do the chit chat and get on with our day. We don’t need encounters with new ideas. We’re TOO BUSY for that stuff, anyway!
SCREW IT! We have HBO!
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