Matisyahu's Blog

I’ll be flying back to Wellington tomorrow but before I fly out I’ll pop into Silvia Park shopping centre to have a look around, grab something for lunch. Before I fly back I’m tempted to grab some Krispy Kreme doughnuts because we don’t have them in Wellington the only time I get doughnuts is when I am up in Auckland other than that it is something that I avoid since getting my diet back on track with a focus on healthier options. On the other hand I am worried about falling back into bad habits – the old story where it is easier each time to fall back into bad habits to eventually you’re right back to where you’re started then having to fight the uphill battle once again. I’ll think about it but I think I won’t end up getting them in the end because the temptation is good great to go back to square one again after making such progress so far.

The one thing I learnt about social media – when someone makes a reply to your post in bad faith the best thing to do is to not engage with them, mute their account and continue on with your day. I’m happy to have a robust discussion with someone then finish the conversation knowing that we didn’t misrepresent each others positions but we agree to disagree but why spend time discussing something with someone who isn’t interested in a good faith discussion? that is part of the problem these days, people talking past each other, seeing the other person as the enemy if they don’t 100% line up exacly with what they believe, the sort of people who complain about ‘bloat’ in the funding resolution in congress while they ignore that to whip votes you’ve sometimes have to compromise, to grease the skids and get things moving. Life is about listening, negotiation, understanding where someone is coming from – not everything in life is about one person screwing over another person in an attempt to ‘get to the top’, sometimes people actually have a genuine disagreement born out of a different world view.