Friday, April 23, 2010

Lesson #2 : Each Individual is Unique and Different

Been a month since i wrote eh.. Time really flies when you....err...have so much on your mind *and do completely nothing about them - sigh* but i like the way i've been missing my blog so much i kept thinking to write again - and amazingly gathered enough energy to actually DO it, so here i am..

Well, i already have several things to share but this is what patience is all about isn't it?? ;p Moments ago i spent pretty much time with some people that did a really great impact on how i perceive things.. Some of 'em uses the - easy to access and fast - highway, while some prefers the all small-slow-but-sure pathways.. Which is more preferable? I can't really decide, since from my point of view, both can be effective depending on the situation *yeah, i have that annoying-typical-psychologist's mindset, don't i?!*

The whole story became a little more interesting when those people became demanding to each other.. The "highwayers" just found it hard to understand why some others still uses pathways.. While on the contrary of course, the "pathwayers" just failed to adjust their speed in order to catch up with those fast paced highwayers.. Then they began to judge each other, and things just got funnier.. I don't know.. More of an ironical funny..

See, we tend to judge people simply because they have different ways, or use different approaches in solving problems, or even perceive things differently than we do.. Funny how we always seem to get stuck in our own opinion.. We just cannot understand why people behave like this, or think like that and so on.. (i just don't get it why people have these tendencies - oopsss *grin*) We somehow block out all the things that doesn't match our way.. Why? Simply because "we are not used to it" or "never heard of it", or worst, because we like to keep things the way they were..

There are 2 things here.. First, we keep on blocking new things that might even be important for us. The second is that we act as if difference is a shame.. While in fact, we are all different individuals that have a number of different approaches and paradigms that make a real huge combination of possibilities, only HE who made us can count.. Being different doesn't make you an alien, for God's sake! Now let's make it simple: each and every one of us is different in every way.. And this difference should be perceived as uniqueness rather than a thread to our existence.. Just imagine if all the color we see is only blue or all green.. How boring it would be..

Now as we get to the end, as always, i'm a share an interesting quote i found in a book *unfortunately i don't remember which book haha* .. So please consider this:

~ the strongest instinct people have is not the will to survive,
but the instinct to keep things familiar ~

I hope that from now on, we can think more before we judge, and become aware of all the uniqueness around us that make this world a whole lot more beautiful than it ALREADY is ^^

-dna-