ＧＲ ａｔｉｔｕｄｅ３６９????’s Post
It’s a tempting but really bad idea to cut people out of your life for disagreeing with you, or because you hate their world view, and here is why…
If you turn your belief, value, or ideology into your identity, it is no longer just an idea, it becomes YOU.
And then, when someone challenges your ideology or world view, you won’t hear a disagreement, you will hear an attack.
So, what do most people do? They build a nice, soft, padded little bubble for themselves, where everyone agrees with them, uses the same words as them, hates the same people as them, and celebrates the same moments.
If you have done this (or you are tempted to do this), you will find that before long, you will start defending that bubble of yours at all costs. You will cut people out of your life for disagreeing with you.
Facts will no longer matter, logic will be long gone, and you will lack empathy and compassion for anyone who sees the world differently.
You will double down on your own ideology; louder, angrier, and more closed-minded than ever before, yet think you are superior.
You will defend your own point of view as if it is sacred scripture. Not because it’s true, but because without it, George Carlin says, you would have to actually develop a personality, and that’s way harder.
(Contributed by Steve Hines)