Bridges that Do Not Collapse
Building bridges is good only if they hold up against outside pressures, otherwise, they collapse when needed most.
I’m talking about the strongest thing that holds relationships together. When we build relationships based on common hatred, anger, fear, you name it, they fall apart under pressure.
Love, we know, is the strongest bond of relationships, but you know, we all do not love each other, even though we have a common enemy. But that is the key, if we turn our common hatred for the enemy into a common love for our enemy, we will certainly end up loving each other as well.
If you do not read my posts, you may have already gotten the wrong idea of what I mean by loving an enemy. It does not require religious belief. It is loving an enemy of conscience. You see, bridges exist in our collective conscience when we have a common standard of conscience.
Enemies of our standard try to tear down our bridges as we do theirs, but by loving them as part of our standard—by seeing them as blind in their conscience and not knowing what the hell they are doing, and thus, not judging them for being blind to the value of everyone’s life—we hold our bridge together and build more, maybe even inspiring them to love us as an enemy of their conscience.
When that happens, bridges can be built between two different standards, and that should be our goal.
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Well written! By building bridges we also expand our own world and our understanding of it.
Straight to the point! I like.