Imagine two boats on a large lake

Imagine two boats on a large lake. They start out going in the same direction, completely parallel.

Now imagine one of the boats turns the wheel just a bit away from the other boat.

At first, this slight angle isn’t noticed. They could go a long way without noticing the boats are starting to move apart from each other.

But after a few miles, these boats really start moving away from each other. And by mile four or five, it is almost unrecognizable that they once were right next to each other.

Now let’s imagine the boats are filled with passengers of all ages and precious cargo which can’t handle much turbulence. So if the two boats want to come back together, it’s unlikely a sharp turn will happen, as the passengers will be thrown around the boat.

So the only solution to safely bring these two boats together is a slight turn back towards the other boat. They won’t come back together right away, but just as they gradually departed, they gradually get closer and closer.

After a couple more miles of this revised course, they are finally back traveling in parallel and have safely come together. Yay!

If you haven’t guessed the analogy by now, these two boats are representative of society. Wherein our divisions happened long ago and only now are they becoming more and more apparent.

And so, as a nation, we must all slowly do our part to turn the boats back towards one another. Drastic shifts are dangerous, instead every small action to bring people together is the safest way to connect society again.

It starts with every one of our daily actions, every act of kindness, every compliment, every time we show compassion to others… this is the way to bring the boats back together.

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