Common Ground

“Do the thing you fear to do and keep on doing it...that is the quickest and surest way ever yet discovered to conquer fear.”

Dale Carnegie

There can be no doubt that we are living in highly polarized times.

Passions, feelings and tempers can be inflamed in an instant.

This diversity is increasing on a daily basis.

Still, I believe when we act as mature rational individuals, we can and will be able to find common ground.

Take the relationship between my good friend and fraternity brother Doug and myself.

One of us is true blue.

The other one's blood runs as red as the stripes on the flag.

We never argue about it.

In fact, I can't ever remember it ever being an issue.

Of course when we meet at our frat's yearly get together and one of us is wearing a red hat the other one naturally tends to bristle a bit.

Still we respect each other and value each others opinion, no matter how misguided. 

You see, Doug is a Phillies fan.

I am a Yankees fan.

In the last 2 weeks, we have been subjected to cancelled games between our 2 teams ,first because of Covid and now because of a tropical storm.

Enough is enough!

Stop the madness!

This we can both agree on.

We want baseball!

(What did you think I was talking about?)

Common ground.

That is what we need to bring people together.

Time to play ball!