When Steven Spielberg,
at age 13,
made his first movie,
he could have
chosen any of the boys
he knew
to star in it.
He asked the bully
who had been beating him up,
and
letting air out of his bicycle’s tires.
The bully laughed at him.
Steven Spielberg asked again and again
until the bully said ‘yes.’
He then made the best movie he could
with this bully cast
as the John Wayne-type star.
The bully became his friend,
and
his ally.
Rivals
(or as my 11 year old niece calls them
arch enemies)
don’t have to stay rivals.
One
or both
of you is choosing
that adversarial relationship.
Change your choice,
and you’ll change your relationship.