“Pick a side”

A bit of a rant

‘Pick a side’

It’s a game that’s gotten more popular over the last few years. You may have played it yourself.

Something comes up,

You are encouraged to ‘pick a side’.

So you do.

And in the process you narrow your social group a little, trim off the excess fat.

And for a while it feels good.

“My people! My crowd!”

Raaaahhhhh!!!!!

But then you get asked again.

About a different issue.

“Pick a side”

There it goes again.

And the more often you get asked to ‘pick a side’, the smaller your ‘side’ becomes.

The next thing comes up.

Then the next, then the next.

Because you can’t possibly agree on everything, can you? That’s not human nature.

So maybe, just maybe, there’s another game many of us aren’t even aware we’re playing.

Maybe, WE are the ones being played and fragmentation is the desired goal.

Perhaps the longer ‘game’ is about division. Smashing communities, families and friendship groups into shards of hatred. Literal splinter groups.

Well, I refuse to play that game.

I no longer ‘pick sides’.

I HOLD OPINIONS.

And if people don’t think I’m on ‘the same side’, that’s THEIR problem.

Not mine.

Pick a side?

I choose humanity, every time.