“To live a life that needs an enemy to feel like you’re doing good… That’s a really exhausting life to live.”
My friend and coach casually said that, and it landed as so much more than a passing comment. Sitting on it the last day, I realize it reminded me of how many amazing people I know online and in real life that choose enemies.
Create, not fight enemies.
We’ve fallen trap to the idea that “I can only be right if you’re wrong.”
So we actively create and choose enemies (that don’t exist) among those we engage with (friends). Then we take it a step beneath and if friend are wrong, then they must also be the enemy.
We’re so blinded by the utility of an enemy that we commit ourselves to our own form of prison that we can’t escape from because we don’t even see we’re trapped to begin with. Thinking we’re doing good in the world when we’re creating the very thing we think we’re fighting for.
