Life is not fair. As ominous as it sounds, our world is full of biases. Don’t believe it? Think about this – a man can produce millions of sperms every day. A woman ovulates around one egg every month. But to get rid of this one cell, women have to go through the gruesome menstruation, while men are exempted from this punishment. Realizing this in a biology lesson was one of my early recollections of identifying the unjust nature of lives. If you are reading this, you are most likely a human. Billions of other life forms exist in our planet, but they have all been denied many privileges we enjoy, because they are not, humans. Imagine if you were not a human, you might not even get this opportunity to imagine.
What if this inequality didn’t exist? Well, we might never know. For a while, think about a world where everyone is the same. Same looks, same intelligence, same strengths, same power and thus, same stories. And same story means no story. There would be nothing to hope for, nothing to shatter our dreams, nothing to make us strive, nothing that keeps us waiting, nothing that rewards us, no wishes, no plot twists, no punchlines, just the plainest of all existences. Not many would ever want that. Because we love what makes us different, even though we might not feel this way all the time. The scar you got when you fell from a bicycle, the way you like your morning coffee, the smile you get when you show-off your newest project to your mother, the way you cried on the first day of kindergarten are all things that might have made you love yourself, make you feel like you and your experiences are unique, and thus worth cherishing.
But are any of these experiences actually unique? In this wide world, many people might have lived through all these moments with little differences. At a basic level, we all have the same aspirations, we all want to be treated with love and respect, we need food, water and oxygen, we want a safe shelter etc. But we all choose different means to attain these goals, some get all these and more without asking for it, while for some even the harshest of struggles don’t seem to lead to desired output. All these differences compound over space, time and generations to create what we perceive as our uniqueness.
Thus, your quirks may not always be to your credit, the obstacles in your path is usually not an outcome of your mistakes. The best we can do is to try to change what is mutable for good, accept what we cannot affect and appreciate what does not need to be altered.
The above article reflects my random trail of thoughts that wandered to the topic of uniqueness. Why are we all so different? Why our lives are unexpected and at times, bizarre? Do we have to constantly seek to be different? You are welcome to share your opinions and discuss this topic further here.
very nice explanation..good one..ya life is always bizarre and full of unexpected
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