SEEING BEYOND CREATING PEACE AND JOY
What to the letters below spell?
N O R M A L
Well you probably figured that one out pretty quick right?
These letters spell
Moral
Ram
Am
Nor
Or
Oral
Loan
……and ON and a few more
Oh you thought I meant what? If you used all the letters right in a row? Well sometimes life gives you a lot of parts that line up one way one time and yet you can make choices to hep yourself or someone else by taking those things and lining them up in a different way right?
Also what if i had added an S after the L above? Would you have imagined I was talking about some group of people who fall somewhere in the center of the spectrum of our agreed upon culture? …well maybe..and look at how many more words the letters could spell then!
Like
SOAR which is what we all can do if we avoid the trap of thinking all the letters had to belong to one and only one word. Unfortunately we do it all the time with religion,gender, disability, politics, wealth… and all kinds of other dualistic notions that there is somehow a unified them and us. Yes we have tribes who share some of our values and other characteristics… but if I had asked you to identify the “best word” in the list made up from the letters… I doubt there would be widespread agreement. However, I felt no need to ask and felt no need to compare —because as http://www.sethsblog.com (I think that’s where you find Seth Godin’s blog) reminds us when we do tribal comparisons we tend to compare the best in our tribe with the worst of the other tribe. In the end this highlights divisions and keeps us from seeing beyond our current notions and pretty much makes it rare that we value the differences that could be combined to make more positive things possible.
Well summing this all up…let your mind go beyond the expected or “normal” so to speak and maybe you can discover new combinations that bring all types of peace and joy.
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