several sundays ago , at ashraya , the church i am a part of, i was incharge of serving coffee, I wanted to reorder the cups and ended up into such a design. what have i gained out of it ..... i learned to stack cups in an angle and get my self distracted during Pastor's message for some time till i realised that i must get back to the "thing" the Pastor was saying. i still don't remember the message. how ever today i was planing to bring talk about the way we are. We may not be the clean freak in the church or the community or at the office, but some times we tend to organise things into stacks and lists and bullet points and so on and so forth. things gets easier that way. i can always find my watch in the box labelled time or box labelled stuff on my table or box labelled odds or... i dont know, most probably under my pillow but some of you may know exactly where to find the post-it note that you left two nights ago.
But the concern is not this, its that sometimes we tend to box people, we are very good at doing that. you meet mr john, he is huge, he looks funny, and he smiles, we call him mr happy (from the Mr Men). i have a question here.
Have you ever spoken to him or her?
The most proabable answer is "NO" and even before we know a person, we add him to the patterns we have in our head and say "ya, i know this kind". Isn't something wrong here?
this was the mistake i made when i went to my friend's house and talked to his son. In ten minutes i was running complicated algorithms and sequences and neural networks trying to understand this kid. i hurt my self wondering how will i be able to relate to him, as the kid was kinda inward and i was trying too hard to understand him. i may have hurt him, but the lovely little boy forgave me, cause i later understood this guy and he was a new person/ personality to my list. this kid not only changed my look and my extrospection, he also changed the look the world gave him when i was able to be his good friend.
silly of me to hurt my self, but glad that the pride was hurt and the humble pie did taste a lot sweeter. the world is much a better place when we start to value people for who they are. teachers i find often do this, they have a black and white checkered classroom.in the black, the bad kids that donot study, in the white the good angels who bring in their homework daily. Sincerly, after my lesson, i look at students, people, as a part of rainbow; more like the color pixels on MS Paint. a huge array of different color, some are simillar but never equal.
...till next time Su!
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