GIMME A BREAK, GIMME A CHANCE
Thursday, February 18, 2021 - daily column #6672
Are we forming fair and logical assumptions about anything or content with merely correct-ish ones?
There is no absence of public examples, how governments made wrong-headed assumptions about citizens – and citizens made illogical not-fact-supported presumptions about their leaders.
No need to name-drop. We know the pumped-up headlines and who the usual suspects are in every country’s news. But looking closer to home, at schools and at work, in our communities and groups – or with someone next door, or down the hall, we get it wrong. A lot wrong sometimes.
Is there a cure for this?
Maybe there is a therapeutic, one that can help us step out of this primordial muck and into being better-selves territory. One not rooted in a pitched debate about issues du jour. This hinges, I believe, on how open we are about our feelings. I know it sounds risky, dangerous perhaps, to consider telling people what we are thinking, explaining ourselves, and revealing what we are afraid of – as opposed to keeping it inside.
Who wins that tug-o-war?
I started this year with a great goal (but it’s piling up!) to write better letters, to write more letters, and to eliminate short email notes and texts as much as possible.
And conversations too – to just let them flow. If someone decides to call me in the middle of the day, it’s because they need to talk – so I should listen. Yes, the work being interrupted may be time-critical or urgent, but almost always, it can wait.
Missed calls and missed meetings are missed opportunities.
How many opportunities must we miss before we have no opportunities at all?
Reader feedback:
Good morning. I just want to tell you how much I’m enjoying your musings. Good writing, good logic, LP, Laguna Beach, CA
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