Conflict in Career

A dispute — with a colleague, a manager, a whole team — has become the weather you work in, and pressing your case, however right you are, only feeds it. Stop halfway: drop the need for the other side to admit fault, and hand the matter to something impartial — a fair manager, HR, or simply time. The Image points to the cure: conflict is handled best at its origin, so weigh beginnings carefully — unspoken expectations are where most workplace quarrels are born. Line 3 fits a tense season: live on your proven competence rather than staking new claims, and don't chase credit while tempers run high.

If you're thinking of leaving in the heat of a conflict, note the Judgment: it is not the time to cross the great water. Don't launch a major move — a resignation, a confrontation, a new venture — while contention divides you; a house at war with itself can't make a clean crossing. Look first at the conflict's root, which is often inner: the demand to know why things are unfair, the running argument with your own situation (line 4). Accepting what is, then changing the attitude that made war on it, restores the perspective you need. Choose your next step from peace, not from the middle of the fight.