It sometimes feels as though our choices and decisions are binary.
As if it’s either this or that; wrong or right. But not everything is reduced to an opposing idea. Maybe it’s simply the values that we’ve been instilled with—or where we’re comfortable with our beliefs, behaviors, and habits.
I can see where binary choices are clear: Anti-Semitism/Racism/Intolerance is wrong. While tolerance, acceptance, and building bridges of understanding are right. If you disagree, you’re going to have to show me in a very clear term where we disagree.
But life, especially in Chapter X, need not be constricted by such binary defined boundaries. While you might have preferences, the optimal approach is to sample, try, test, explore, analyze, search, delve into, probe, scrutinize, research, scout, sift, traverse, burrow and seek what works best for you.
It doesn’t have to be good or bad.
It doesn’t have to be perfect or a failure.
For men who have been wired to think in terms of “achievement”, “success”, and where competition is part of your “nature”…you might try another approach.
Learning for the sake of learning.
Playing for the sake of playing.
Trying something new and different for the sake of the experience.
It doesn’t have to be binary.
