Part of our nature as human beings is to adapt. We like to follow others and we like to be like other people. We aspire to be like those in the media and the movies, those on the stage. We aspire to be like him or like her. Even from very small we copy our parents and grow up doing the things they do in the way that they do them but if our parents didn’t encourage us to be ‘us’ then invariably we’ll continue doing what they do.
If when you join a cause or an organization you don’t have a strong inward sense of who you are, you may, completely unintentionally, become everything that that organization is. You may, without realizing it, say the same things, do the same things, even take on the same perspectives and convictions but deep down, you might even never fully connect with what the organization does in a deep and meaningful way. Now that’s pretty scary to think about, that as people, we could actually let that happen.
Each one of us has been created in such a unique way with individual DNA. It’s sad when that isn't realized and brought out. We really do need people to tell us, “hey, it’s ok that you don’t think like me or you have a different viewpoint.” Someone to tell us it’s ok that we are different, that we are who we are and to celebrate the difference.
