There is a saying from the airlines,

Put on your own oxygen mask first.”

And in the air that’s very true,

But sometimes we are on the ground.

And sometimes we only use that slang

To justify our self-absorption,

And indulge ourselves to be a dick.

But that’s only sometimes, 

Isn’t it?

But other times maybe it is only up to us

To find the seeds of agreement inherent in any opposition,

And plant them,

Watch them sprout,

Then build on contentment and bloom no matter what others around us are doing.

It’s easy to say and hard to do.

But it’s worth it.

Isn’t it?

-jenn