A friend as addicted to office supplies as I am bought these cute little craft punchers. I've been joining a four-hour call daily for the last week. To keep my focus in check, I got crazy punching little moons, crowns, frogs, and flowers on my post-its. That sounded contradictory, but I focus better when I'm doing something else. Kinesthetic, they call it.
Fast-forward to the end of the day, and I'm in a four-hour breakfast with friends. We started talking about differences in people and how these differences bond and break us. Diversity, in a word. Sometimes, it's misused and abused. Other times, people are just confused about it. I have learned to sum it up with a philosophy I live by: Agree to disagree. We will all have differences. I cannot always agree with someone else, and I cannot always disagree either. I can't always be right, and neither can everyone else. I have to accept the differences in Everyday People (Sly & The Family Stone). I have my non-negotiables, of course. Things like values and beliefs. There, however, are always going to be different strokes for different folks. One way may work for you, while it may not work for me. That doesn't mean I have to crucify you for it.
One may be a moon, another a crown, even another a frog, and another a flower. The punches we make, though, eventually multiply us all to a pretty cluster. So, there's beauty in diversity.
