As of late, I can watch the news with a different eye, a Third Eye perhaps. I found a slight crack between "Complete and utter despair" and "Neutrality." I experience more depth to my coping strategies and find I'm less often "triggered."
Continuing to be furious is futile, for there are more years, months, and so many more days like this ahead. I knew I wouldn't survive, if I didn't change my tune.
So I searched, read, watched, absorbed, listened, constructed an even greater moat of protection and savvy.
If I know what "THEY'RE" up to; how they think, what they believe, how they suffer, react, find relief - I feel more informed, less fickle, my suspicions decrease, I can trust my opinion with further awareness and validity.
Understanding how others think and feel from the other side of the fence gives me a different impression of THEM, a new attitude, perhaps the shift in discovering THEY aren't all bad, wrong, and insufferable. There are sides to the story I know nothing about. Angles I hadn't considered.
Truths I was unaware of unfolded. Until I looked, peeked under the enemy lines, I really didn't have a clue. I just suspected I was right.
Playing the part of disgust and agreement is easy. Coming from a new insight, maybe I can speak up, give some talking points that manage to bring light where I thought only darkness lives.
And we can start a conversation.
To meet in the middle, or gently lean in the other direction and commit to listen, maybe not fully understand, yet be willing. To be inclined to hear their stories, their suffering, their angle. Start including, encouraging the "WE versus you and THEM."
Things I couldn't see with my blinders on are explored and clarified a tad.
Are you willing to lift up the curtain and glance at the opposing side with me?
Comment below, if you have something to say. I'd love to hear it.
Thanks for being here.