KEEP THE OLD WARM

You, and I.

Their team, our team.

Their party, our party.

Their country, their country.

It takes two to make something positive, or negative.

If we say something terrible with the intent to harm the other person, they can either choose to be hurt and retaliate, or they can walk away and shoo us off like bugs. We must say something negative, and they must choose to be affected by our words. Interpersonal pain requires us both to play our part.

If we say something kind with the intent to bring the other joy, they can choose to be gladdened and reciprocate, or they can remain indifferent and ignore our words. Interpersonal joy requires us both to play our part.

If we wish to stop negativity in its tracks, we ignore negativity. We don’t do the tango.

If we wish to cause negativity to spread, we hope the other does the tango with us and chooses to be harmed by our words.

If we wish to stop positivity in its tracks, we ignore positivity and remain negative. We don’t do the tango.

If we wish to spread positivity, we hope the other dances with us and accepts positivity.

This shows us that all that happens in our human world requires us each to play a part. If I speak negatively or positively to a bush, nothing happens. If I do so to another human, something may happen.

We must try aiming for the positive and shooing away the negative like a pest. If enough of us do this, we’ll see it reflected in society. If enough of us succeed in this, masses will not be manipulated with hate for each other.

We can fight our fights, blame our targets, choose our sides, rage against the opposition, dig our heals in, bite, claw, tear with all our might, and can we guess where we will end up?

Choosing the right leader, party, group, ideology, perception, and raging against the other is how we remain divided, conquered, and EASILY manipulated. We remain in a petty, pathetic, and truly violent hell.

Or, we can look to our left, look to our right, and not hate what we see. We do not need to love all others, but are many truly worth fighting, blaming, and hating?

What if, to help save the world, every person, all at once, everywhere, danced the positive tango with those beside them. What if every person chose kindness, listened, rejected petty hate and annoyance, and saw others as their ally in the fight to improve the world?

Yes we must fight, yes we must contend, yes we must be at war with some things.

But some things, we do not need to dance the negative tango with others to.

All negativity in our life goes back to us dancing that tango. So we look in the mirror, and look to dance the right dance, at least we will try to lead in a positive tango.

It takes two to tango, for better or worse.

But only you can grasp the difference in your own heart.