Reaction

After the initial few moments, we have the choice to think about how we are going to react to any situation that comes our way in life.

We control that choice, no one else.

We have the power of that decision, how we react.

The reaction to any situation has an outcome and we alone are responsible for that.

Sure, initially there can be anger, disappointment, shame, upset and so on. But within a matter of a second or two, we can then choose what happens.

There have and will be more enough opportunities in our lives to learn what reactions lead to what outcomes.

Our reaction is a choice that we control.

Change your lens

Often we do not listen, we hear, but do not listen. That is because we are fearful of being wrong with our own views, or scared that the polarised camp we are in may well be wrong too.

Very few things are so simple as to be a case of one option or the other and that is what we are frightened of, so it is easier to shut down, close off, hide, pretend there is no other view.

Take a moment to choose to embrace the opposite view more than the one you currently believe, walk a mile in the other sides shoes, put on their lens for a day. Change the lens and see another view and look without evaluation or judgement, just observe.

Maybe, just maybe, we would be able to come together as a human race instead of being hatefully apart.