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Once upon a time there was a woman (or maybe it was a man… doesn't matter) who didn't much like where she lived.
She was surrounded by pushy, misinformed people who nagged at her to come over to their side. She battled those people and their ways valiantly. She lashed out at their thinking, and she girded her loins (why do loins need girding, anyway?) for the inevitable backlash. She defended herself artfully, seeking weaknesses in their stubborn beliefs to replace with her enlightened viewpoint. She used all the logic and reasoning she had, and she used facts, and bolstered them with the opinions of those who supported her own beliefs.
Now, this woman (or man… doesn't matter) didn't really want to fight. She truly longed to live a peaceful life. She yearned for the relief that moving on would provide her. But all she could see was the fight in front of her, and there was little time to spare for where she would rather be.
So she stayed immersed in the reality she hated.
Thus she never looked to the place where she wanted to be.
And so she never got there.
The opening line for this post is a paraphrase from Stairway to Heaven, of course.
