By Claralynn Schnell of Contemporary VA
Do we live in a world where compromise is looked at as weak versus strong? Most days I would say yes. You look at the political landscape of the United States and you can see that parties stick with parties regardless of the topic. It can seem like instead of electing public officials, we have simply elected republican and democratic robots who do not use their brains, but simply vote with a party line. I use this as an example of how compromise is looked at as weak.
As a society we feel that the need to be right, is more important than the human beings who are involved. We feel that our need to “win” in any given situation is valued more than doing the morally correct thing. Our lives our dictated by how we can get ahead and how we can go farther in this world regardless of the collateral damage that may come with it.
We have stopped view others as important and have become a society where the #selfie is now commonly known and understood. How in the last 30 years has society changed so deeply? I will not go into the technology rabbit hole that has indeed vastly changed the fabric of society. Instead I will say that the family dynamic has changed. That we no longer eat dinner as a family, we no longer enjoy just spending time together, and we must always be doing and seeing something new. We are a generation of “experiences” versus “relationships.”
We have lost the art of what it takes to compromise because we no longer see people as people. We see them as obstacles, or just another bump in the road to where we want to be. To change this we must first change the dynamic in our own lives and change how we view not only each other, but also how we view ourselves and how we want our children and grandchildren to view us. When we stop and look at our lives from an outsiders view, we will see not only how we need to change, but why it is vitally important for us to bring relationships, compromise and family back to the forefront of our society.
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