People think there are only two ways to rise up.

The first is to push the people near you down lower so you become higher.

The second is to work really hard and somehow magically lift your self up and as such surpassing your starting point.

There is, of course, a third way.  Its simply to lift the ground you are all standing on. To use another analogy you could fill the bathtub with more water, and everyone will rise.

It does not have to be you versus them.  It can simply be all of you together.

© words by Daniel DeMarle 2018