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The Positivity of Common Ground
Finding common ground is an excellent way to develop pathways of positivity.
Do you like feeling negative? Does anyone actually prefer to feel angry, frustrated, sad, distressed, and unhappy? I know don’t…and based on an utterly unscientific analysis of my friends, I really think that, generally, nobody does.
The world is overflowing with various entities finding and creating divisions among people. Whether physical or not, pretty much all divisions among people are completely artificial.
Sure, there are different genders, skin colors, eye colors, body shapes, and other physical variables. Likewise, people have different ethics, religions, nationalities, ethnic backgrounds, politics, and other made-up immaterial aspects.
While these differences can in many ways simply make everyone unique, all too often they get used to create deeper, wider, and harder-to-bridge divisions among people.
Why? Because that will disempower you. When you are disempowered you tend to look for means of empowerment. Because of the nature of society, that tends to be an external quest.
But real empowerment comes from within, not from without. When it is difficult to see this within yourself, one way to do so is to find common ground with like-minded people.
