Hey mate, just saw this now. I followed the drama and sometimes is impossible to sit out. There're 2 sayings that go like "The word is silver, but silence is gold" and also "the silence is the shaman's best friend", so I totally get the ideia of taking a time out of speaking out loud (that would be a post) and just comment (more like small talk)
But there's another saying that I really like: "The only thing you shouldn't tolerate is intolerance" so sometimes we have to put our best fighting pants and go for it. We should never be silence if we spot unfairness of any kind.
Normally I evaluate if it's worth the fight. And if I decide it is, I'll go heads on. And I think you manage it very well.
Also I'm glad that you are back to your balance. I really like you so I'll be worried if something would happen to you.
On another note, since I'm talking about balance, the heart and the mind is not really what sometimes people tell us. In my point of view you don't have to find balance between them, but put them in the respective place: The heart decides and the mind acts. Never the opposite. I'm not saying it's the right way,, or the only way, just putting out there how it is to me (in case some others are reading ;) )
Anyhow, I almost made a post here, but my heart was in this direction. So be it.
Believe me, I'll be laying it all out there.
I'll tighten the chin straps of my mediator helmet!
This sentence sticks out for me, 'unfairness'. The drama has had elements of it on both sides and I was lying in bed thinking about that last night trying to get to sleep.
Balance for me is more or less back, I'm just trying my best to weigh up what is really worth my time and how I want to be seen by others.
Thanks for the food for thought mate, it's definitely helped with some of the questions I've been asking myself.