I think that the one thing we can all agree about is that we're glad it's over. No more back stabbing, mud slinging and no more unwelcome phone calls telling us how to vote. It's over for four more years.
It's interesting how we all have our own perception of "truth". Sometimes it is as simple as who got to us first. Other times there are deep seated reasons for what we believe: family history, what we have experienced during our life, even our personality type or work experience. It all plays a part in shaping what we perceive as truth.
I am reminded of the Non-Sequester cartoon I saw the other day with the two men coming around the corner ready to crash into each other, each carrying their sign declaring their truth. That's what happens, we collide into each other with our ideals about what is really the truth. When we collide we can't even begin to hear what the other person has to say.
We can only see that if I'm right then he has to be wrong. Isn't it just possible that there is some truth in each person's view and that by being open to the other side we may come closer to the "real truth"?
Sometimes, we are so eager to find fault with the opposite view and see them as the "evil element" that I think what happens is we have our eye balls in backwards and are seeing our own badness instead. We do that, you know.
Watch yourself next time you find fault with someone. What it is you dislike about that person: narrow mindedness? shallowness? gullablity? Is that some of you you are seeing, maybe?
My only wish for the next four years is that we have learned something from our past closed mindedness and saw where it didn't get us and try a different approach. Listen, really listen to the other person and we might really hear what he/she is saying. That's all I'm saying.
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