Live and Let Live

A phrase with origins from the first World War (1914-18) wherein a temporary truce was upheld by both sides as sort of time out when the opposing forces were engaged in trench warfare. Although these respites from pitched battle were tenuous and subject to ending unexpectedly when someone got trigger happy and wouldn’t give temporary peace a chance.  A cultural definition for the present day has us living the life we choose and allowing others to do the same.  Live and let live a phrase that has been forgotten in large part due to the over dramatization of personal events by the media. One can hardly live a life or their own choosing especially when it doesn’t align with the court of public opinion.  

Live and let live means that even if we don’t agree with how others conduct their affairs that we give them the benefit of not trying to do their thinking for them. If they  don’t ask us for  our advice  we should not  offer ours. A parallel might be that since there is no one correct religion, ethnicity or political party nor is there one set of rules for the course we take in life. We all end up in one place more or less and how we get there is our own affair.