What if Irony is Judging Others for Lacking Empathy?
Oftentimes
all we disagree on
is the definition
of a word.
If we are willing to use
the other persons definition
we may agree
if we are unwilling
then we disagree.
The question then beceoms
what are we afraid would happen
if we let the other person
use their definition?
“Your intention doesn’t matter!”
shouted
the CTO.
“Yes, it does!”
shouted back
the CEO.
“What matters
is the impact!”
shouted back
the CTO.
“Stop.”
I interrupted.
“What
is preventing them both
from mattering?”
I asked.
We think fear
is spiders,
ghosts,
or heights.
Fear
is also
the tiny voice we hear
that says
“but that’s unprofessional,”
“I shouldn’t cry,”
or “that’s not right.”
“I keep learning
the same lesson
over
and over
and over again.”
said the founder.
“I don’t know what
is wrong with me.”
she lamented.
“May I share a story?”
I asked.
“Yes, of course.”
said the founder.
“Before I went to art school,”
I began.
“I thought craft
was outdated.
After all,
craft
makes you repeat yourself
over
and over
and over again.
…
Why do craft,
when we have machines?’”
I explained.
“That makes sense.”
said the founder.
“Then I learned
that life
is a craft.
There is no machine
that can live
for us.
If it did,
it would no longer be
our lives.
Yes,
craft makes us
repeat ourselves
over
and over
and over again.
But that
is life.
What craft does
is it trains us
to learn
from the repetition.