Decisions made in anger, fear not best ones

I have found through life when I make a decision about anything with anger and fear, those decisions come back to haunt me. When I make a decision with thoughts of compassion all things seem to fall into place.

I’m not saying I make my decisions with compassion all the time but I do try to and I recognize much more often when I do make the wrong choice. Once fear and anger gets involved it spreads very quickly. It’s like a disease.

With all this said, I have been witnessing this happening with the City Council and mayor of this friendly town! I have seen it done with Tremain and Adara Albright’s tree house situation, the hiring of the city police chief, even in the matter of the Antique Car Show downtown.

It’s just not about the decisions but how they are presented. We all know it’s not just what we say, but how we say it to our wife, husband, child or friend.

For example, when the tree house was going to be cut down from the Albright’s property, Tremain asked them not to cut the trees down where he moors his boat, but they did it anyway and left them there.

In regards to the annexation issue, we asked the city not to put up any lights or pave streets or cut ditches or to do anything before the judge makes a decision on the annexation. But the city did it all anyway.

One analogy to this situation is that of a dog marking his territory. An in your face sort of way. So what I’m asking is for all of us to stop and think about making our decisions with compassion, not with anger, not with an egotistic agenda. We are all connected, whether we like it or not, so let’s start communicating with compassion for each other’s situation.

Anger and fear based decisions just do not produce good solutions. A nation, a state, a town divided will fall apart. We see this happening all over this world; don’t let it happen in Bonners Ferry, the friendliest place in Idaho.

Rich Beck

Boundary County