Lesson on Division

I'm actually trying to be early this week!
Anyway, a thought occurred to me that I feel like sharing, even if this will not be read by anyone. (Maybe I'll be able to stick in a story too, so it can be not-read there also.) The thought was just remembering how division works in mathematics and that it, like the other operations, requires two components; the numerator and the denominator.
I think the reason I remembered this basic math lesson is because of how much talk there has been about people becoming more divided, and invariably whenever this is discussed, a cause for the division is also identified. That cause is like the denominator, the component that divides the other. What is forgotten though is the numerator, the part that is divided.
Now, people are not numbers, which I feel is important to remember because as persons we can decide if we are divided or not. Whatever someone says or does, it was, is, and will be our choice to walk away from others, figuratively or literally. The trick is that walking away from the denominator is still walking away, and so doing that is itself division. We do not need to agree or condone, but we can stand where we are and find ways to be closer to others.
We, ourselves are individuals. As persons we cannot be taken a part with one set of thoughts over there and our principals over there. To do so would be dangerous and destructive. Be careful to not let that happen, for to compromise our own individuality, as some do desire, is to fall to division.