If you maintain a position, by default you have created insiders and outsiders. You have people for you and people against you. You defend your allies and disparage your enemies.
In order to maintain that position you need to exert a lot of effort. You need to continually engage in a battle between hope and fear. Maintaining your position becomes a part of your identity, who you are, you become your position and your position becomes you.
And yet none of this is real.
It is only real as long as we continue to invest in the stance and the ground we hold onto. As we loosen our fixation to our own position, the duality between allies and enemies starts to dissolve. You see your allies position and can understand it, but you also see you enemies position and can understand it. You may see that neither stance is right, and for you it doesn't need to be.
Seeing all positions and not fixating on your own, there is a chance that you might do real work. There is a chance that you might be of some benefit to others and find your own work meaningful.
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