Dear Chia,There are many kinds of people in the world and all of them have a pulse their own; every single person is unique and special even when they are not like you. We tend to judge people by our perceptions of ourselves- people are mostly not good enough. Is that really the case ? Who sets these measures? And what if everyone was just alike ? Imagine what a dreary place the world would have been!
Just because someone is dissimilar doesn't make them imperfect or bad. It's the perfect that is unreal and untrustworthy. Real world like real people is full of bumps and nicks, each one adding more to character, telling stories of a life well lived. Never judge people, instead marvel at them. Express wonder and surprise but don't ever criticise. Enjoy lightheartedness just as you enjoy dreary intellectual discourses. Don't typecast even your own self. Remain fluid, change, move with time and tide, experiment with moods, emotions and personas. It's intriguing and fulfilling.
I once knew a colleague who would have the whole room laughing the second she entered it. Almost all of the time that I knew her, I looked at her with great derision constantly ridiculing her as a lesser intellect being. It was only later that I appreciated the full measure of the amazing impact she had on people. Years after both of us had left our respective jobs, people remembered her easy laugh and not my multifarious business contributions :).
Accept people for who they are. After all , there is only one of them.
Like you .... Are one of a kind.
Love
Mummy
