It is an important fact to be reminded of, too.
If you are asked, say, to mediate between two quarrelling neighbors, it is obviously best for you to listen to what both sides have to say. If you listen to only one person, ignoring the other, you won’t be able to help solve the dispute. In all likelihood, you may further agitate the other party and make matters worse.
Quarrelling neighbors. On second thought I think I may have picked a poor example. Quarrelling neighbors are in fact a rarity in the city these days. Neighbors, you see, are so busy with their own work and lives that they don’t meet at all. Not that they hate each other but that they just don’t congregate, as folks do in the country. They may go full weeks and months without seeing each other, let alone meeting face to face or throwing a tantrum at each other.
Oh, well, for better or worse.
Call it the flip side of modern life.
Alright, you’ve got the point. Let’s examine a few media examples of “the other side of the coin”, meaning, again, the hidden side of the view, often the opposite of what is readily seen:
1. What do you see when you think of national parks and protected areas around the globe?
Do you see poverty?
Although poverty is generally not the first image that comes to mind when one thinks of national parks and protected areas, it does exist.
“Protected areas and national parks can be and are extremely beneficial for communities and ecosystems,” said Dr. Grant Murray, Canada Research Chair at Vancouver Island University for Coastal Resource Management, “but there’s always the other side of the coin.
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