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It feels important right now to remember kindness.
Fully half the country is grieving, outraged, maybe not even willing to give up yet. It feels important to generate compassion for those millions of people who are genuinely suffering now, because they believe we’ve just put a Very Bad Man in the presidency.
Remember how mean we said Trump is? How selfish and divisive? Let’s make sure we don’t mirror that now in our moment of victory. Watch your speech. Is it mean or divisive? Are we still making jokes at ‘their’ expense? If so, how does that make us any different from the man we’ve vilified all this time?
Resist the urge to relish in the other side’s unhappiness, the other side’s faults. Stop scanning for examples of excessive negativity. Scan for goodness. Everywhere, not just on our side. It’s there in everyone.
Pay attention to how you talk to your friends about “them.” (I put that in quotes because that word just keeps us from realizing they are the flip side of us. We are one coin. And it’s much richer than that. We are one sphere, and like it or not, we have everything in us.)
