Are you overprotective of your “turf”?
If you have a pet cat, you may know what happens when another cat strays into its territory–most cats switch into an aggressive, over-protective stance when confronted by another cat. It’s amusing (and sometimes annoying) to observe–but have you ever considered that people sometimes react similarly when somebody else strays into their physical or emotional “territory”? At the Strangely Dim blog, Dave Zimmerman has an interesting post about the human instinct to protect our turf, with some thoughts on God’s original intent for human boundaries and interaction.
