Brain Snacks 026: Blame the carpenter

One craftsman picks up a board and continues work on a fence, meant to keep something out.

The other picks up a board and keeps working on a bridge, meant to connect.

The boards themselves and even the tree that was sacrificed for them is neutral in the whole affair; it’s what the end user chooses to do with the material that creates the impact.

Words, thoughts, ideas, actions - all are boards we’re picking up from the same pile of our shared humanity.

Their power to divide or to unite is entirely in your hands.

What are you building today?