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How Do Finding, Straddling, and Crossing the Line Compare to One Another?
There’s always a line — and you choose if it intimidates you or not.
There are many lines in life for us to find, straddle, and cross.
Most are utterly intangible. They’re lines that represent crossing from one idea to another. Some are deeply negative — like making polarizing statements, disenfranchising people, and otherwise causing hurt and/or harm by crossing the line.
But others are potentially positive. But they’ll represent some kind of change that others will perceive as negative.
That’s part of human nature. It’s impossible to do something new or make a significant change without someone feeling hurt. But you can’t control how someone else feels — because it’s on them.
Further, this is not intentional hurt. You make a change, or do a new thing, and that person perceives it as a negative. This might include perceiving that you’re leaving them behind, putting them in a secondary position, or otherwise shifting your focus and attention away from them.
The thing is, to create something — anything — that you proceed to share with the world, you’re finding, straddling, and crossing a line to make it happen.
