Innocence and well-intentioned wholeness lies deep with everyone, though layered with varying degrees of familial dysfunction, societal pressure and mixed messaging from authority figures. Fear for our survival is generally inappropriate. We are rarely in an existential competition with others, where winning is a matter of life or death. When the impulse to perceive another as a threat arises, it helps to pause and remember to relate to the innocent and pure part that surely lies within them. Not only does this feel better to us, it usually encourages them to…
Be that person.
