Context Connects Our Stories

This may surprise many, but no matter how divided we feel or are by our circumstances in life and the world, even if we are sworn enemies, we are bonded more by our opposition than if we had complete apathy to one another. 

Our struggle is the context we share. The backdrop to our relationship of opposition makes our story a shard one–knitting us more closely to one another than the magnitude of whatever leads us to feel divided. 

No matter how separate our views, our passions for those views makes us one in the same. 

Our circumstances differ but the deeper context is our human experience–an experience of struggles and sympathies. To whose cause? That is just circumstance. 

That we felt it. 

That we fought for it. 

That we experienced the great equilizer–our humanity–makes us more connected than separate. 

If you want to connect meaningfully with others through your story, begin where we all begin–with the universal threads that tell the stories of what it means to be human. 

The context to a shared story is a description of the world we understand, even if that understanding is a matter of two different sides of the same conflict. 

Shift in context lets us reconsider our perspective. 

What’s a way of looking the world that allows you and the forces working against you to see the world from the same perspective? That is where connection will heal your divide.