Sitting on the Fence Becomes Uncomfortable

Sitting on the fence can have its rewards. It keeps us safe from ridicule and can make us everyone’s friend. We get to sway our opinion depending on whose company we’re in and it can save our careers, our marriages and dinner with the in-laws.

Sitting on the Fence Becomes Uncomfortable

We’ve all might have done it. There are many decades of our life when it might be necessary to “compromise”. Because our true needs might involve working at a job we don’t enjoy in order to pay the bills. Or smiling politely because our spouse’s boss is an idiot.

The beauty of growing older however, is that a day comes when you hardly care what other people think. When as the saying goes “I’m more concerned if I like you rather than if you like me.”  How freeing. Oh, I’m not condoning rudeness or aggression, there is a certain level of grace that goes a long way when you’re trying to make a point.

So as necessary as fence-sitting can be, how it keeps us comfortable, it is worthwhile to hop down to make a stand. Not everyone will like what you say, many will talk about you when you’re not there, others will think you’ve lost your mind.

But as many of us know, we get to change our minds. We get to learn from experience and then stand in that new understanding. We don’t need to provoke, or get angry, or convince. We just need to choose a side

We just need to choose a side. (Tweet This)

Sometimes sitting on the fence is our way to compromise. (Tweet This)