No Time

 

 

One need not be as skilled with words as is Jordan Peterson to appreciate the necessity of speaking the truth, and doing so most of the time, using plain English to clearly, concisely, definitively, lay out one’s case.

 

For example, we are all guilty of brushing someone off, explaining breezily that we just do not have the time to hear them, hear their case or associate with them.

 

We would better serve them and ourselves if we were to respond to their entreaties by bowing out, affirming that we will not take the time to hear them, because we do not value that time so spent.

 

Our decision not to take the time to be with them or hear their case might be sensible since we have better, higher priorities to spend our time on.

 

Or we may be mistaken or heartless not to spend some time with them, hearing their legitimate beef, or just comforting them in their loneliness.

 

But that right to reject anyone over anything is a basic issue of our right to use our free will as we see fit, being asserted to them that we will not spend time with them, so the public must live or at least indulge us the liberty to state and execute our preference, good or ill.

 

We in turn would be granting them the free will right to punish us in some way, for good or ill, for our rejecting them and their request to a share of our time and attention.

 

In the long run, we should, as much as possible, say what we mean, and mean what we say, to limit confusion, misunderstanding and hurt feelings. Clarity in communication is in short supply these days, and most of us begin by deceiving ourselves first.