Reminder: Different is Just Different

Once upon a time, when our ancestral homes were the wild dense forests, when our lifestyle was dangerously fatal and lives short-lived, it made perfect sense to desperately hold on to already known, safe facts and practices. Quite literally, lives depended on it.

Can’t be too sure, but it looks like we have come a long-winding-rocky-dusty way from there to wherever we are today. And, if the history of humanity is to be acknowledged, making space for differences, with or without adopting the same for oneself, has led to collective progress myriad number of times.

QOTD: Why then is it so hell difficult to let difference live?

This post does not advocate for the thought that anything different is inherently good and better. This is only to remind us that a different good does not negate the value of existing goodness.

But more importantly, this post questions the inherent haste to divide the world into good and bad. Sometimes, things, situations, people, values, perceptions, facts, comprehension, feelings, responses, and everything in between can just be different. Not better, nor worse. Simply, different.

When does this judgemental differentophobia serve us well?

Yes, I just made up that word. It’s not a designated condition and I am not offering expert advice on getting over it either.

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