“War is the normal occupation of man…War and Gardening.” – Sir Winston Churchill
“Agriculture is Gardening with Consequences.” –Paul Wilson
My dad tells me that I need to stop seeing the world as black or white and see grey.
He is right.
For me, the hardest part about Normal Occupations, is tolerating dissonance. The state of having conflicting opinions about things, people or my own actions.
Seeing the ‘grey,’ as it were.
Take Winston Churchill.
He was of noble birth. Winston’s absentee parents both ignored and publically humiliated him. Forcing him to leave home young because they thought he’d become an abject failure.
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In 1915, Winston supported a daring plan to take the Dardanelles Strait in Turkey.
That plan backfired and Winston was largely blamed for the over 100,000 dead.
Through all that, Winston navigated his way out of the political wilderness and emerged from political exile in 1939 to defend the realm against the Nazi Regime. Becoming, in my humble opinion, the Greatest man of the 21st century.
I know not all of us have to fight and defeat Hitler. Some of us (me) just have to defeat a little angry man inside our heads, who for whatever reason is screaming in German.
Moral of the story, Churchill never let dissonance get in the way of his love for family or country. And that is why we remember him today.
So the next time, I find myself at confused at the intersection of Dissonance and Harmony, I’ll have to remind myself, the words carved into Westminster Abbey:
Remember Winston Churchill.