Hot Take #1: Politics
Starting a New Series to take the place of Decoded, everyone.
This series is meant to be boldly honest yet deeply empathetic.
Open your mind, Open your heart and give it a read.
Let's get it started.
We constantly feel divided.
By our beliefs and who we think is right.
Who we trust and who we put our faith in.
It allows people to draw the line in the sand so much deeper between the perceived, "us" and "them".
I have experienced this throughout my travels all over this beautiful planet.
What would happen if we just accepted the reality that people won't see the world the same way we do.
What if we recognized that people have the right and privilege to hold and honor their own opinions and beliefs.
They have the right to do what they believe is best.
No one's mind has ever been changed by someone being hateful or bitter or resentful towards them.
Yet, we are encouraged to prop ourselves up and belittle everyone who doesn't believe the things we believe.
The truth of the matter is that kind of behavior is spurred on by the truth that hate is so easy to sell and so cheap to prop up.
What is hard to do is love.
It takes work. It requires something of us.
It requires sacrifice... and most importantly, compromise.
We seem to believe that communication is the most important thing till someone communicates something that is opposed to how we think the world should be.
What a world it could be if we acknowledged that people aren't just like us.
We do it so often but in the categories we feel most comfortably about.
Odd how that works.
Compromise over comfort.
Yours faithfully,
Sam Qavah John.
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