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Choose Your Battles Wisely
That means you can’t choose not to battle all the time, either.
It was pointed out to me recently that it’s a very male thing to make everything about combat.
I suspect that’s true. Let’s face it, wars have always been started by men. I cannot, for the life of me, think of any war that was started by a woman (maybe Cleopatra? Admittedly, I have not researched this claim). I am well aware that women have participated in combat and been leaders in battle — but I do not believe they have started a war.
Howsoever you approach it, there is a tendency to discuss matters of public or private discourse as battles, fights, combat, wars, and whatnot.
I am not, nor have I ever been, a soldier. While I have done a lot of study into warfare, strategy, and tactics (largely for battle scenes I’ve been writing), apart from leading many fencers in pretend-lethal melee combat — I am not a military man.
Perhaps it is due to my indoctrination into the expected societal norm that I also follow a combat analogy in how to approach discourse. I think this could be an excellent future topic to look into further. But for now, I digress.
When you are faced with a situation, whether broad, semi-personal or explicitly personal, you get to choose how to…
