Humans are wired to pick sides. We take the complex dualities of life and try to "solve" them by choosing one half and expelling the other. It’s an understandable survival tactic; we choose dogma because it reduces the deep discomfort of not knowing. It provides a rest from the labor of thinking.

But when we refuse to collapse the paradox, we are actually being more honest about our reality.

To be human is to be limited, in other words, we are bound to a specific spot in a specific moment. We are incapable of knowing everything for all time. Because our perspective is inherently narrow, holding two opposing thoughts is not a sign of confusion; it is an acknowledgment of our position.

A person who has all the answers is rarely a person who is growing. The goal isn’t to resolve the internal conflict or find a "winner" between two ideas. The goal is to be the space where the conflict is allowed to happen. We are more human, more internally resolved, in that tension than we are in certainty.