16 April 2024 — BEING INTRODUCED TO PEOPLE WHOM WE HAVEN’T MET BEFORE

How often I wonder, do we immediately in our minds, compare the new people to whom we are introduced to the people we know well, thereby, I feel not seeing them as individuals but merely as representatives of the human race.

We are ALL DIFFERENT even though we may resemble other people but our responses to situations often reflect our conditioning. On meeting new people we often attempt to put them in a box as it were telling ourselves that they are like other people we know.

We are, of course, all very different from each other and we DO NEED TO HONOUR THOSE DIFFERENCES rather than grouping the new people we meet with people of whom they remind us rather than honouring their differences and their special way of being.

PONDER POINTS: on reading this i felt …. people to whom I have been introduced who have made me feel good about myself are …. people to whom I was casually introduced but became very best friends with are …