True Colours : Is Acceptance the Only Path to Human Connection?
Rushali Mishra
All we ever want, amongst other things, is to belong. To be accepted and welcomed by others, just as we are, without masks of illusion.
It’s the world to look forward to, but not the world we live in. Throughout history, there have been cutouts of the “right” kind of people and there were only so many. There was this image that you had to live up to, shoes to fill.
Different scared people. Fear of the unknown sometimes overwhelmed them. Oppression was thus born from it. Gasps, gossips follow those who choose the road less taken. Anything other than correct has to be wrong and looked down upon, right?
We lived in a black and white world back then. Nooks and crannies preserved for such “misfits”. People either adopted an accepted means of life or they were discarded and diminished for being so.
Now, in today’s fast paced world, such differences still remain, such people remain, who put others down, just because the concept was passed on and shared to be a brick to fit in the “oh-so-perfect” wall of society, not their own person. Live and let live is underappreciated. When you accept and admire the lights of various kinds you see in others, there comes this warmth that no matter how you look, where you come from or what you are, you’ll be seen like you do others.
Beauty is in difference and individuality, not similarity. Pretty flowers at a florist or pretty flowers grown amongst the weeds are both pretty still, and born from soil. Some may be medicinal flowers helping others, while some are made into paint, and some may not be flowers but great trees of oak. Likewise, we face hardships and we rise from them, we define ourselves with many features and our uses may be different too.
Difference in opinions, difference in cultures, when done right is an amazing blend of variety. Some tend to get separated because they don’t know how to express their differences and how they fit in, they are misunderstood, yet they are still human that may only need a lended ear.
We weren’t meant to live this way. We were meant to be the one connected with nature, to others. The image of people flowering and prospering in an accepted society is a beautiful image, one that we can help create.
