Reflection

No Blood, No Foul

You don’t need to play football to recognize this moment.

You’ve probably lived it.

You were doing exactly what made sense—
according to the rules you were playing by—
and suddenly the rules weren’t the same anymore.

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No announcement.
No whistle you could hear.

Just the realization that everyone else had already moved on.

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A few things to sit with:

• At what distance do you stop seeing harm?

• How far behind you can something happen before it no longer feels like your responsibility?

• How often do we judge people without asking what part of the field they were on?

 

And a harder one:

• How often do we assume someone should have known, simply because we know now?

 

We like clean rules.

We like obvious lines.

But most human conflict doesn’t happen because people cross lines on purpose.

It happens because the line moved
and not everyone was told at the same time.

And finally—because humor earns honesty—

If you’re being completely honest with yourself:

When everything suddenly stopped…
would your first thought really have been compassion?

Or would it have been:

Wait… does this still count?