Equality Means You Are Perceptive And Aware Of The Needs Of Others

Do you think equality is important?

A common discussion these days perhaps. I only intend to take a very general view or look at this vast subject.

Is everything equivalent? Would it help if it was? How would that affect our lives?

Or would it just hinder us and demotivate us? If everything was a level playing field what would be the fun in that. Whatever you did, whatever the effort you put in, would not make any difference. It would just maintain the status quo, what would be the good in that?

But that is not our life either, is it? Life does not work out that way anyway.

Push and shove, left and right, forward and back, action and reaction. Our world is full of opposites and actions that mirror themselves.

But perhaps I am looking at this from the wrong angle.

Are we not all born the same. We all come into the world in the same way.

We all start life in the same way.

Some would say some are more equal than others. Perhaps they may have more possessions. Are bigger or stronger. Have this ability or that.

But we all breath. We all need sleep. We all need water and food. We all need shelter.

Apart from the need for breathing, the rest may differ in scope, quality, circumstances, but the same basics are required.

And this continues throughout life.

Probably as we get older we can see we are really all the same. Irrespective of skin color, background, and so on.

At age 20 even a 30 year old appears old. But at age 50 things have equalized out somewhat. Somebody of 70 does not seem so old now - but not numerically different from when we were 20 and they were 40. But it does seem different now.

A matter of perception perhaps. A matter of viewpoint. A matter of outlook. A matter of attitude.

So what is this uniformity exactly? Perhaps this changes as we go through life, too. As we mellow with age and experience, knowledge and time.

There does not seem quite so many differences and actually quite a lot of similarities between us and our neighbour, our acquaintance, our younger friend.

A matter of perception and appreciation. Awareness and realization.