Day #31: Diversity (100 days of gratitude)
Day #31: Diversity (100 days of gratitude) Good morning! Bon jour! Vanakkam! Namashkar! .... These are four of several thousand languages and dialects to wish you in the morning. India has hundreds of them. Similarly, there are many religions and faiths around the world. There are people with different orientations and dispensations to ours. When we meet someone who speaks a different language to ours, we need to struggle to get ourselves understood. This struggle ends with elation if we succeed or laughter or despair if we fail to understand each other depending on the gravity of the conversation. Similarly, when we meet someone of another faith that we are not accustomed to, we are curious to understand what they believe in and why they believe in it. This exchange gives us a larger perspective to our world and enriches us if we are not stuck up with our own beliefs. Boredom comes when we do the same thing over and over again or meet the sam...