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Common Sense, Uncommon Mirrors Some lines stay with you, not because they make sense, but because they don’t. At least not immediately. And so, ‘Any resemblance that you may find hereunder with people you know, to persons living or dead is purely coincidental.” “To confuse the enemy, first confuse yourself. If you have no idea what you are doing, your enemies don’t either.” “You can’t win with a fool. He will bring you down to his level and beat you with experience.” The first time I heard these, I remember pausing. Not in agreement, not in disagreement, just in a strange space of wondering what exactly was being said. Over time, it struck me that maybe the confusion was the point. We all walk around with our own version of common sense. Built over years. Shaped by upbringing, education, surroundings, and sometimes just by chance. To us, it feels obvious. Clear. Almost unquestionable. And yet, place two people with equally strong convictions in the same room, and suddenly “common sense” becomes a debate. What seems logical to one appears foolish to another. What feels like clarity to one looks like chaos to someone else. That’s where the idea of not judging comes from. Not out of weakness, but out of an understanding that each of us is seeing the world through a different lens. You have your set of beliefs. So does the other person. Neither arrived there overnight. But then comes the difficult part. What happens when the majority begins to see something as unreasonable? When behaviour starts affecting not just the individual, but the people around them. Family. Friends. Society at large. At that point, it stops being just a personal lens. It becomes a shared concern. Perhaps that is why systems exist. Laws. Policies. Procedures. Not to control thought, but to create some boundaries where individual freedom starts spilling into collective discomfort. Somewhere between sanity and excess, there is a thin line. Hard to define. Even harder to accept when one crosses it unknowingly. And maybe that’s where those confusing lines come back to us. To remind us that certainty can be dangerous. That being absolutely sure of oneself can sometimes be the beginning of being completely unaware. That in trying too hard to outsmart others, one might just end up outsmarting oneself. So perhaps the lesson is simple, though not easy. Hold your beliefs, but hold them lightly. Question others, but question yourself a little more. And before dismissing something as foolish, pause long enough to wonder… On the other side, someone might be thinking the same about you…

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