Humans are like sand cupped in the palm of a hand. If you squeeze the sand too firmly, grains are going to slip between the cracks of the fingers. One must hold the sand softly, gently, and with care.
I'm sorry it might be me being dense, but what exactly does your metaphor mean? If you're too strict, people are going to leave? Like, is it a good or bad thing that grains are slipping through the cracks? Because your metaphor also means if you squeeze properly, then you can pack people closer together and prevent them from escaping...
There must be some kind of ultimate boundary, but within those boundaries adequate freedoms. Human nature is the formation of factions and groups, which inevitably agree/disagree/quarrel, but in an appropriate environment, such dispersion into factions is acceptable if friction is minimized. But once you come down too hard on people, or a single faction, or squeeze too much, you lose some factions, and picking them back up is no easy task...
Humans are like sand cupped in the palm of a hand. If you squeeze the sand too firmly, grains are going to slip between the cracks of the fingers. One must hold the sand softly, gently, and with care.
I'm sorry it might be me being dense, but what exactly does your metaphor mean? If you're too strict, people are going to leave? Like, is it a good or bad thing that grains are slipping through the cracks? Because your metaphor also means if you squeeze properly, then you can pack people closer together and prevent them from escaping...
There must be some kind of ultimate boundary, but within those boundaries adequate freedoms. Human nature is the formation of factions and groups, which inevitably agree/disagree/quarrel, but in an appropriate environment, such dispersion into factions is acceptable if friction is minimized. But once you come down too hard on people, or a single faction, or squeeze too much, you lose some factions, and picking them back up is no easy task...
Beautifully written metaphor, sir.