A glass of water sitting on the
table, filled with liquid, but not to the brim, slightly less than
three-quarters.
She sees it half-empty, I see it
half-full.
Is either of us wrong? I don’t
know. And, that is the law of perception; directly tied to it is individualism.
See there is absolutely nothing
wrong with seeing things a certain way, but what is wrong is forcing your
opinion on another. In fact, what is worse is forcing your personality on
another.
It is indeed a notorious fact
that no two persons are the same, take Jane and Jennipher, identical twins but
totally different. It would be a huge aberration, if not treasonous to force
Jane’s ideals on Jennipher. Why, because there is Jane, and there is Jennipher.
Sadly, we do not want to accept
these differences; instead, we make those who are slightly different
uncomfortable in their uniqueness. Because we forget that if there is more than
a thousand fish, then there will be more than a thousand human beings. But, we
hate what is uncommon and make it seem like the dreaded.
The only thing that irks me the
most, apart from failure and betrayal is superficiality, a wanting-to-fit-in
kind of mentality that destroys individuality. See, if God wanted a world
replete with calm people, He would have, with a simple “Let there be.” Instead,
He said let there be, and out came shapes, types, kinds and categories of
people. So then why is it seemingly an offence to be oneself? Why are people
never taught to be confident in their skin? From whence do we get the ideology to
let people feel out of place, judged and harassed simply because they are
sanguine?
One day, someone said something,
that I feel went to the very root of my individuality. I felt insulted. So to
everyone out there who is too boxed to embrace, who is too short-sighted to
discern beauty in apparent messes, to anyone who thinks we should be cut out
from the same cloth, it is time to come out of the mediocrity and embrace the
diversity. There is nothing wrong in being different, and nobody should feel
there is.
Attack my incompetence, my
irrationality, my irresponsibility, but never my individuality! There is beauty
in being different.
“I took the road less travelled,
and that made all the difference.”
