Us poor humans, we're so fragile these days. Understandably so, given we live in a time where so much is crumbling and ending and we're sometimes not sure there will even be a new beginning.

I keep trying to remind myself that this is why people are so reactive and close-minded and unaccepting of allowing others to have their own perspectives. Now, we are so fragile and so caught up in the thin abstracted thinking characteristic of our times that we actually take offense at other people daring to be themselves. We are threatened by it.

It's not a very dignified way of treating each other, is it? I just hope for times of renewal where us poor peeps are less stuck in fight-or-flight and more able to yield and open.

It's bloody hard work though, isn't it. Over and over again. I get disheartened by how closed off and threatened I can feel by other people's own closed-off behaviour. And round and round it goes. But like you said, it's just being willing to stop and walk away if need be to where you can reopen to another's difference and treat it with dignity. Ouch. But lovely.