Agreement is usually not necessary.
Many of us have lived as if we always had to be right. We did not stop to notice that other things we cared about were being lost such as friends who got tired of our persistent need to be right, or children whose self-esteem was undermined when there was no room for their ideas, or a former mate who drifted away because we could relax only if we were proven right.
In our differences there is much more to look at and far more to settle than who is right and who is wrong. An intimate connection is simply communicating our differences to each other and understanding them. Agreement is usually not necessary. Our relationships give us an opportunity to view the world intimately through someone else's eyes. Defeating our differences defeats our opportunities to learn. We need just exclaim, Oh that's another way to see it!
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I wish I could plaster this everywhere for people to read. Too many people are caught up in being right that seeing another side is completely foreign to them and it is more than frustrating!
"Agreement is usually not necessary. Our relationships give us an opportunity to view the world intimately through someone else's eyes."
Yes, we don't have to agree, but we can still stay open to hearing someone else's view.
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