Boy- “You will never know the excitement of visiting new places.”
Girl- “You will never know what being with your loved ones means.”
Boy- “You won’t know how thrilling it is to enjoy lunch in an unknown place with an unknown family while they share their experiences.”
Girl- “And you won’t know how exciting it is being with our old friends and reliving the moments of madness spent together.”
Boy- “Have you tasted authentic continental or Asian cuisine abroad?”
Girl- “And do you know what it feels like to savour Indian homemade delicacies at home?”
A movie scene where a young boy and a girl are arguing about what is the real exciting way of living life. The boy has an ambition of touring the world, visiting places, staying there for a couple of months and experiencing and exploring that life. Staying in one place, with one set of people is a very boring idea for him while the girl is arguing about exploring the niches and nuances of life in a cozy world that is her home and hometown. Being with own people, family and experiencing the nitty gritty of a seemingly very trivial and mundane routine is very thrilling for her. The argument continues and at one point the boy says, “You are not right, just different from me.”
He is not ready to agree with her arguments but accepts that her view point is different from his and which he accepts. How often do we accept that a person can be different from us in his likings or strengths? Can we try to understand this difference and yet accept the person without judging and labelling? Everyone forms opinions or views based on the upbringing received and the types of people one has come across. These may change over a period of time or even contradict the earlier ones as well. We base our opinions on our experiences and sometimes we are flexible enough to change them or rigid to not accept the change.
Our friends, children may have a different liking or thinking or opinions about something. It may be anything from food choices to major career or life decisions. It is not always easy to embrace the ideas or views and not necessary to do so but accepting a person with the difference of opinions in our life brings so much of thrill and enlightenment. It broadens our perspective and horizon by taking us to a world unknown to us or hidden from us. We can take a tour of that world with an open heart and mind and may find some jewels or clues missing the puzzle of life.
Putting ourselves in other’s shoes gives a fair opportunity to know him instead of judging and makes our coexistence respectful of each other’s views and choices. Life is fun because of varied colours, imagine all the flowers having the same fragrance or all the birds having the same colour. Who will get noticed and what beauty it will have? Nature has created nuances in its art work so that everything looks beautiful and different from each other. If everything was in monochrome. What fun will it be? The variety and contrast brighten everything and bring out its presence prominently.
We may disagree on certain things but accept the goodness in it. It is like a confluence of seas where we witness differently coloured waters merging into each other yet maintaining its own beauty and existence or like an arc filled with the varied colours of bougainvillea, together and individually independent at the same time.