Bernard TENAND

Know how to live

It is common to hear the following words: "All work deserves a salary" That is very good! It is true, the reverse is much less pronounced and yet just as true and important "All salary deserves work"

In our beautiful country of France, we observers often have only one observation post. This single observation point deprives us of any fair, equitable, balanced reflection, therefore everything, to form a partisan opinion. This egocentric view is a bit like if in a sky 50% of the clouds were distributed on one side, or even only the cloudy side or the blue side: our vision does not see the other.

A fragmented vision cannot allow the mind to analyze all the data in order to reflect, weigh, claim, give, refuse, demonstrate or counter-demonstrate.

Wouldn't putting ourselves or trying to sneak in, to introduce ourselves, even for a moment, into the other person's head make us change our hasty points of view, which consume useless energy?

But here's the thing, thinking about putting yourself in someone else's shoes: it's a bit like loving your neighbor, it's about letting go of your vanity, your selfishness and your hypocrisy. Isn't that "living well together" and not "living together"?

Living together is hypocritical, small, stunted, not very honest, not clean, not clear, indefinite.

Living well together is bold, it is an ideal, it is an ambitious and healthy project for all of us.

Living well together requires us to dot the i's without hatred and without weakness.

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