Isn’t it beautiful?

This is the hill I will not die on. When I make a decision to not fight, to not push back, to not become authoritarian, I make the decision that it is just not worth the effort that it would take, and the losses that would incur, if I tried to defend this hill, this position.

So instead of fighting, instead of shouting, instead of demanding, I offer empathy for the issue at hand and state that a later we will have a conversation about whatever the issue at hand is.

And that’s it.

It took him a while to see that I wasn’t fighting. He climbed that hill many times, only to discover I wasn’t at the top.

Recently, in response to a comment someone made, he said “but we don’t fight”.

And that’s it.