But sometimes political scenes arise and take over social media. Frequently I just have to shake my head. Often I unfollow people but keep them as friends. Occasionally I actually resort to un-friending people.
But I usually remain silent.
And then every once in a while I feel compelled to comment. But that comment becomes longer than a status update. And kind of morphs into a blog. A blog that resembles folklore, legend, a parable, fiction. Call it what you will...
Distracted
There once was a big family who loved each other and lived peaceably amongst their neighbours.
One day they heard very loud barking coming from the yard of their neighbour across the back fence. The family began to dispute among themselves what ferocious breed of dog it sounded like.
They yelled, argued, fought and said hurtful things to each other (the very people they loved the most) while they tried to determine just how dangerous this dog was. They had violently differing opinions on whether they felt the neighbours were protecting, versus endangering, their own young children by owning such a ferocious sounding dog.
They spent many hours in their backyard that day damaging their own family relationships, while trying to peer through the neighbour's fence to determine the breed of dog and safety of the neighbour's children. And the sad truth was, the reality of neither factors would be changed at all, even if it were possible to beat each other into a consensus.
Later that day they went back inside their house to realize that while they had been so distracted by the rightness and wrongness of their neighbour's decisions to protect their own family, they had left their own front door open and someone came in and robbed them blind.
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Don't be so distracted by things you have no control over, and zero influence on, that you ruin your own relationships with people you love, and turn a blind eye to what's happening to your own property.
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