Society is set up
for the daytime people. It is set up for
those who follow the "rules".
If you get up energized and ready to tackle the day, get dressed and get
to work, are outgoing, cheerful, and a hard worker; you will do well. And if you are beautiful and smart on top of
that, you will succeed greatly.
But those of us who
are running on a different clock, have quirks in our personality, cannot quite
manage cheerful in the morning, are introverts and thinkers, are at a
disadvantage. We have to travel some
distance to reach the starting line for the chosen. It does us all good to think a little about
where each of us starts and how that might have an impact on where we are.
There are myriads of
ways that we, as people, start from different places. What appears on the outside to be an even
playing field is not. We have different
levels of education, experience, and learning styles. Think about education for a moment. Take a random room full of college graduates
and compare them. Even if they all went
to the same college, did they get the same degree? Did they learn the same thing in each
class? Of course not.
And all of this talk
about understanding that each of us might travel the same distance and end up
at varied spots would be moot except that it begs us to have some awareness of
that fact in order to suspend judgment.
You cannot know what challenges or advantages another has had on their
journey. The most valuable gift I can
anyone else is to accept them where they are.
And the gift I give me is to keep in mind where I started and not
compare myself to others. Wherever I
start is where I start whether I am looking at a facet of my life or a new
day. Accept where I am and don't compare
the results.
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