Faith + Reason = Truth

People can be divided into two groups.  I am not referring to the "haves" and "have nots" or "thinkers" and "doers" or any of a host of other common divisions; I'm talking about people who need to tell other people what to do and people who do not have this trait.  This may have even been mentioned in another post at some time during the past year and four months, as it creeps up in my life from time to time.  The live-and-let-live camp (as opposed to the live-as-I-think-you-should camp) is the one that is most likely to be tangibly impacted by this division, and that is the camp where I reside.

The "tellers" are apparently under the impression that without their omnipresent direction, the "tolds" would allow civilization as currently recognized to instantaneously and universally descend into chaotic, barbaric, bug-infested, disease-ridden, untidy, non-productive primordial sludge.  They honestly believe with all their hearts that the business would crumble, the house would fall apart, the kids would live out Lord of the Flies existences, and Alaric would bring his hordes rampaging through the gates of Rome raping and/or killing anything that moved and torching all that didn't.

My friends, this simply is not the case.  Would things perhaps get prioritized differently by tolds than by tellers?  Would some things conceivably be deemed not addressable AT ALL by the unwashed multitude?  Quite possibly.

On the other hand, might some strange and wonderful occurrences that may not otherwise have had the chance to spring into being begin to emerge?  Unexpected, unforeseen benefits that would never have been predicted or even fathomed by either the tellers or the tolds?  Almost certainly!

In the interest of brevity, I choose to leave out some humorous, as well as some painfully contentious, real world examples from this discussion.  As for any tellers who may happen upon this post though, I challenge (in the best spirit of my non-telling self) you to at least consider some self-restraint the next time you find yourself face to face with a situation that beckons you to take charge and bark out some commands at someone who very likely neither desires them nor requires them.  Aren't you the least bit curious about what the outcome may be if you allow things to unfold without your command and control presence dominating that tiny corner of the world for that flash of time?