Responding to the chosen one post:Why are we assuming that my decision not to engage means I have decided the other person is bad?
Protecting My Peace Is Not the Same as Avoiding a Conversation: Let Us Understand the Difference I want to respond to this message, not because I am attacking the person who shared it, but because I believe there is something important here that people need to understand from another perspective. Sometimes, people become so attached to the way they understand the world that they struggle to see that another person can understand the same situation differently. And when someone does not respond to a message in the way they expect, they might assume that the person is avoiding accountability, running away from growth, or refusing to hear the truth. And this is not always the case. But what if that is not what is happening? What if the person has already understood something that the person giving the advice has not considered? What if the person is not avoiding the conversation but simply does not see the relevance of the conversation to them? And what if the problem is not that someone ...