Boundaries
How far does your influence extend?
What are the boundaries of your control?
Do you even think about it?
Do you think about it a lot?
Do you road rage?
Do you hit your child?
Do you knock on doors and hand out fliers on political, religious, and social issues?
Do you yell at your neighbor's dog?
Do you not leave a penny?
Do you march?
Do you write your congressman?
Do you stay in your own backyard and ignore what's going on over the fence?
Boundaries.
We all have the potential to influence others.
Those people whom we know and don't know are also in their own bubbles.
Some of us are ballsy enough to romp over to our neighbor's yard and burst their bubble.
However, most of us are complacent and allow our neighbors to drown in theirs.
We assume their decline; their failure is all theirs.
We had no involvement in it.
Boundaries.
You can lead a horse to water, but you can't make it drink.
There are groups of us who believe we can lead others to the well of our beliefs and make them drink the water we're pouring out of our mouths into theirs.
This is and has been a false narrative given to us by those individuals and societies that have subjugated us, the People.
In other words, you can't force people to believe as you do, regardless of your moral high ground or the low ground from which you stand.
If you do, you are a little dictator.
A nationalist.
A fascist.
A supremacist.
Believing that everyone is within your boundaries of control.
Your subjects to do with as you please because you are the king of the world.
Boundaries.
Boundaries.
There are boundaries we break, but there are also boundaries we don't break.
We allow poverty to murder our neighbor and their spirit.
We allow injustice to steal truth.
We allow racism to beat other people down.
We allow those who lack boundaries to make us cowards.
It is difficult to have boundaries when passions are inflamed.
However, there is a difference between seeing a person drowning and either ignoring them or throwing them a book on how to swim.
There is an answer to boundaries that is a compromise.
There is a boundary in between.
It's called love.
Love understands; love attempts to tell us that you can't always get what you want.
Do no harm; love asks of all of us.
Your boundary ends inside of your head; your influence ends there, also.
Your boundary ends at your fingertips.
Community.
We come together as a community, share ideas, and chart a course that best suits all of us.
Together.
Taking all reasonable ideas and beliefs into account.
In the history of the world, there has never been a single belief or a single person who has had all the correct answers to life's problems.
Nobody.
History, in fact, is littered with people and beliefs that lack proper boundary control.
Truth, justice, freedom, and love have always defeated them.
Put a spotlight on their poor boundary control.
Always.
Peace
Daniel J Frey aka Toby