Given the kind of human beings we are, one of the things that would hurt us the most is Differentiation!
Having known that do we stop others from doing it to us? No! Do we stop ourselves from doing it to others? No! Yet, if there's something that hurts us the maximum its differentiation! And its probably the most widely used tool too - the Power to differentiate!
It hurt in school, when I was differentiated from the rest of them coz I was an average student. It hurt when I was differentiated amongst my cousins coz I dared to think beyond the regular engineering stream and ventured into business management & administration. It hurt when my relatives differentiated my parents and me for a crime which my brother had committed. And its still hurts when I am differentiated by my friends for having chosen my family over them at a 'certain' point of time.
In spite of knowing that it hurts, do I make an effort to change my thinking towards it? Yes! But its been of no use. Coz the power to differentiate is the ultimate weapon that can be used against human existence. But by differentiating between the pretty and the ugly, the nice and no so nice, we are just admitting that we are pawns in the game play of the power to differentiate.
The power to differentiate is much larger when compared to the mere instances that I am referring to. But if these small instances can have such a profound impact on me, just imagine the kind of impact it can have to that section of people who are differentiated based o their religion, caste, physique, color, race and gender. And yet we differentiate between a Muslim and a Hindu, an Indian and a Pakistani, a boy and a girl, a person who is fair and a person who is dark.
When would we learn that the power of differentiation is for us to distinguish and segregate the good from the bad and not to differentiate amongst people based on their color, religion or race!
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