By Any Other Name…
Conflict rules many lives.
This major setback, not only stalls actions and initiatives, but can negate progress with one swift blow.
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These antagonistic and dissentious feelings can arise internally from our own fears, unresolved feelings or traumas, or inbred inadequacies.
They can also present themselves exteriorly as toxic foes or mild-mannered individuals merely proclaiming their opposing viewpoint.
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Both stances are equally detrimental, but when these disruptions fulminate from within, causing homeostatic strife and uncertainty, they can be our fiercest and most formidable adversarial obstacles to acknowledge or overcome.
So, how do we get out of our way?
These clashing squabbles, due to personal ideas or goals, stem from the belief that our opinions are the supreme jewels, which are happily stroked by the egoistic inclination to be right, and will impede movement or success.
This predilection to always be the foremost authority coupled with self-knighted superiority can breed contention, which will alienate and isolate rather than be the cohesive glue that binds and wields the preeminent product or protocols.
“A rose by any other name would smell as sweet,” is an esteemed maxim that originated from William Shakespeare’s cautionary tale of “Romeo and Juliet” eerily admonishing that labeling and obstinance lead to conflict and can prove lethal.
As a society we incessantly label everyone and everything, and we erroneously believe this grants us a loftier status from our condescending perch.
This is a blatant falsehood.
But it does influence how the other parties interpret their worth, and prejudicially condemns and penalizes.
We have many names and diversities but belong to One Body.
Each of us encounters innumerable struggles daily that are proving to be incompatible with our well-being.
Yellow roses are universally recognized as symbolizing friendship.
They were also my mom’s favorite <3.
Instead of adding to the overwhelming conflict that grumbles and roars today, hand someone a yellow rose as an assurance that peace is possible.
~ ”If it is possible, as far as it depends on you, live at peace with everyone,” Romans 12:18 ~
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