Human as social creature surely stay relates to
others. Within this relation, sometimes there is a friction caused of differences
that people cannot deny, though they already know that everybody in this world actually
never be the same.
Yesterday I reread a book of mine when I was in
college entitled Meaning in Interaction:
an Introduction to Pragmatics that was written by Jenny Thomas. One of its
chapters discusses the Agreement Maxim which says "Minimize the expression of disagreement between self and other;
maximize the expression of agreement between self and other." What a
nice statement!
Today, people are so busy to trouble themselves
of something that should not be confused of. When Ramadhan comes, people (especially
in social media) are busy claiming which Ramadhan beginning is the truest
according to their version. However, it is actually the case of belief. Whether
they want to fast first following the Islamic mass organization, or they want
to follow the government decision, it already has its own guide. Unfortunately,
it has been continuous annual bad habit.
More, the differences of the president choice,
whether Prabowo or Jokowi. I think you will be with me in this case, that we
have been so sick seeing negative and black campaign from the both supporters.
Thanks God the campaign period has been over, anyway.
The point that I want to write here is actually
about the politeness, about the deference in diversity. Back to the agreement
maxim above, it seems that everything will be so beautiful if we could maximize
the expression of agreement between self and other rather than focusing on the
disagreement or differences.
Just like the difference I stated above about
the decision of Ramadhan beginning, won’t it be beautiful if we notice that we
are the same Moslem whose sight is just not same? It won’t change the belief of
us right? Then for the difference in President Choice, how beautiful if we
remember that all of us only hope the same for our nation, that is betterment.
About the different choice, it is only the case of the specific personal
criteria, but our dreams are actually the same. We are still the same,
Indonesian, who do want a good leader for this nation.
In
sum, I just want to remind you and myself that focusing on agreement is much
better than arguing the disagreement.
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