Throughout life we have always heard that things “were either black or white” in decision-making for the truth. Then somewhere in the 60’s,  we started hearing this cop-out phrase, “it is in the grey” area – it is  not black or white.  Reflecting on all of this, the conclusion was these people did not want to make a decision on whether whatever they were discussing, was true or false, so they turned to this “grey area” for safety.  

We all have a strong desire to be right in the way we see or approach a problem and there will be many times in our new world of immigrants that we will not see things eye-to-eye due to our  upbringing.   When multiple people tell a story, the story if you whispered it from one person to the next, it would never end up with the same information.  It is a fun game – just try it at a social.   So you then go to the facts – never to what they call the grey area. When you speak of the grey area, it is only putting the problem on the shelf.

In this complex world of technology, it is easy to misunderstand what someone might have meant by what was written or typed.  It is also easier to tell someone off if you are not facing them.  People are losing their one-on-one communication skills because of technology which is not good; but, we must still interface with people in the social world and keep our social skills up-to-date.  But as Aesop quoted, “Every truth has two sides; it is as well to look at both, before we commit ourselves to either.”

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