It’s one of the first things we learn as children when we start to socialize: Not everyone will agree with us and we won’t agree with everyone else.

However, sometimes we forget that just because we disagree, doesn’t mean it’s the end of the world and sometimes we need to be reminded of that.

I don’t know if I’m writing this more for myself than anything else, but we seem to be at one of those points where we need to be reminded again.

We’ve just gotten out of a very brutal and vicious election campaign that went on way longer than it needed to.

We’re all bitter, angry, upset and ready to deck the next person who says the word niqab.

Elections didn’t used to be like this. We didn’t used to be like this.

Somewhere along the line, we became a people of hyperbole and generalizations, saying if you support X party you hate Y group of people or some other such nonsense.

We have an opportunity now to move beyond the ugliness of the past 10 years, let’s not let it slip away.

We don’t all have to agree, but we should at least learn to tolerate our differences.

We all have to live together.