There are only a handful of outliers left who feel the need to speak negatively about everything we do. They are a small minority now, and they no longer have the support they once believed stood behind them.
They've become little satellites, drifting through empty space, shouting into clouds that never answer.
Over time, the constant outrage exhausted the very people they thought they were rallying. Communities grow tired of endless conflict. Eventually, those who generate nothing but noise find themselves isolated, not because they were silenced, but because everyone else simply walked away.
That's the irony of trying to build an army around destroying something else. You rarely build an army. More often, you build the conditions for your own isolation.
I've watched this cycle repeat itself for years. People love a fight. They gather around it, they cheer it on, they pick sides. But eventually the audience gets tired. When there's a path toward peace, most people take it. The battle shrinks until it's just two incredibly angry people swinging at each other in the middle of nowhere, convinced the world is still watching. It isn't. No one is cheering anymore. No one cares who wins. They're simply watching two people who never realized everyone else had already gone home.
After nearly two decades of building communities, I've seen enough battles to know that most of them aren't worth fighting. When you're young, it's easy to believe every disagreement is a moral crusade. You feel compelled to defeat every person who disagrees with you. Time has a way of teaching a different lesson. Most of those battles fade into irrelevance. The energy spent fighting them could have been spent building something that actually lasted.
One of the greatest achievements we can reach is coexistence. It's rare, but when it happens, it's incredibly powerful. The easiest way to divide people is to convince them that everyone outside their group is the enemy. It doesn't matter whether the divide is politics, communities, hobbies, or personalities. If people spend all of their time fighting each other, they never stop to look at the problems that actually deserve their attention.
So if you're going to be angry, be angry at the idea that we've been taught we can't be friends. Because the moment we stop staring at each other and start looking in the same direction, we become capable of solving problems far larger than any of the petty conflicts we've spent years feeding.
My suggestion to you honestly if you are reading this find good people be around good people. Do things that are fun and rewarding. Be productive with the people who are productive with you.
Un-apologetically remove the people who are poison to your space. Because it's not a game about how many people you have around you it's a game of the right people around you.
You don't have to fight.
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