When I meet people, there is always a little part of me that wants to "adjust" bits of them. Not big changes, just little adjustments. Things like "Why are you dying those colours into your hair?" "Why are you using that weird voice when you want people to laugh?" "Why are you trying so hard to be good-looking when you're already good-looking except that now your desperate efforts to fix perceived faults are eroding that and underlining/creating said faults?" Stuff like that.
If any of us somehow gained the ability to simply "adjust" everyone to be more to our liking, a lot of the differences would go away. Certain kinds of traits and behaviours in certain kinds of people would disappear entirely. There might not be a single mullet-wearing hunter, yuppie douchebag, dirty hippie or soccer mom left on the planet. People would be much more "the same." And that really wouldn't be good, no matter how tempting it can sound. It's not what God wants. He has no intentions along those lines. He's really not about conformity. He's rather into diversity, to say the least. I mean, how many kinds of butterflies does He actually need to make...
This all seems too obvious to be worth mentioning. Obviously as well, if this is true, every time I meet someone and something small bugs me about them, the fact that I can't change that thing is what's keeping the world full of diversity. And without diversity, it would be a whole hell of a lot more boring.
2 comments:
thanks for mentioning it, however.
really great to read this---thanks.
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