Beliefs, Politics, Religion, and Common Goals

Beliefs are good.
Politics are good.
Religions are good.
Common goals are good.
Unless they’re bad.
One person’s good is another’s bad and vice versa.
Is there no good and no bad?
Obviously there are both!
Why don’t people agree on what is good and bad?
Some do, some don’t.
Does the world need to be fixed?
Ask anyone with beliefs, politics, religion, and common goals.
Does it look like I’m giving up?
Giving up what? My beliefs, politics, religion, and common goals?
Never! Just everybody else’s.
It’s the only way I can keep working with everybody.
I had a land lady in Hawaii who was teaching me about how to have a girlfriend when I was in my twenties.
Her name was Marion Koch. She lived right on the beach. She reached down and picked up some sand and held it in her open hand and said: “See how the sand just sits there?” “That’s how it is with a relationship.” Than she squeezed the sand and said:  “See if you squeeze it, it all runs out.”
I always liked her analogy and it is what I am trying to use here.
If I’m to keep working with people who have beliefs, politics, religions, and common goals, than like holding sand in my open hand I can relate and share with them. As soon as I squeeze though, they run out like the grains of sand.