Stop Building Fences When You Can Build Bridges

It sounds easy enough right? Im not talking about physically building a bridge, well-ish anyway. Let’s dig a little deeper into what i really mean. 

It’s been a pretty wild time these last few years. People have really shown their true colors, their true emotions, and their true character. I don’t mean any of this in a bad way, i am only making observations. 

I believe that fear is the emotion that has had the largest impact as a whole. Fear can make or break any situation, or anyone as a person. Fear is defiantly an icky emotion that doesn’t lead to good things. Fear leads to building fences that will “protect” you from the “crazy world” out there. F.Y.I. The world is not a crazy place just because some people think differently about some things than you do. We are all different, and thank god we are it would be really boring and tedious if we were all the same. 

Although some institutions try to generalize and pump mass fear into our society, you have to use your common sense at some point. Turning off the news helps to, actually turning off tv in general takes away almost 99% of fear causing hysteria :) But maybe you're not ready to pull the plug on your picture box, that’s ok too. Please know this though, everything you see on it is meant to trigger an emotion and every platform on there has their own agenda and your best health is never considered. That is all I will say about that :)

The main reason I am writing this blog post is to get you thinking. To broaden your thought process. You don’t have to agree with someone or their opinion, but you also don’t have to “build a fence” around yourself just because someone doesn’t agree with you. Just because it’s not your opinion doesn’t mean it’s wrong. Some feel threatened or fill with fear when someone doesn’t agree with them. Like the two year old that doesn’t get there way they lash out and their emotions take control...here comes fear again. 

So maybe next time you get into a situation where you subconsciously want to build a fence, try building g a bridge in stead. The first step to building a bridge is awareness. Awareness that you are letting fear make decisions for you, become aware that someone else’s agenda or propaganda is making you feel a certain way. Once you become aware you can nip fear right in the bud and start thinking and feeling for yourself. You are in charge of your emotions, you are in control of you. 

The next step to building a bridge is understanding. You don’t have to agree with someone, everyone just wants to be heard, and they try to make you understand why they feel that way. Most of the time this is not the best situation, there is arguing, etc. All you have to do is listen when they talk, and only ask the same respect in return This is how we build bridges...with love and respect. 

The point of this post is everyone is different, but everyone is the same. We all want to be seen, we all want to be heard, we all want to be understood, and we all want to love and be loved. So there is your template. Approach everything in life from a starting point of love and compassion, listening and understand, and awareness, and your quality of life...everyone’s quality of life will improve dramatically :)

Keep it fun...keep it love...and keep it light:)

Here’s to your life...

Cheers!