We live in the world where people are more divided than ever. People lose their ability to hear, the world become a noisy place because people can't stop talking.
I was reading a book titled Inglorious Empire last year, in that book the author wrote about British colonisation in India. What struck me the most is when he explained that British used identity to divide The Great India. It's not the identity that they are Indian, it's the identity of their religion, Muslim and Hindu. Because of this we now have a country called Pakistan and many people are still suffering by the conflict of identity in Kashmir.
Identity is the fact of being who or what a person or thing is or a close similarity or affinity.
We all are different, I think everyone has know about it and accepting that fact. But because it was boxed up as identity and when someone with the evil intention bring our identity up, we are become so consciously about it, caught up by it, full of it and became less tolerance to anything that are different.
The last corporate job I had also quite ridiculous example about identity. Normatively, people who work in a same company supposedly working together to achieve the company's goals. But the worker identified themselves by the department that they working at, and by the floor their office are. They heavily compete with each other and desperately seeking audience with the 'Boss' everyday just to report their achievement and complain about the incompetency of other departments.
We are so easy to be boxed into our identity by every little thing, and shut our mind to anything unconformity. The 🌏 is round people!!!
I was inspired to write about identity when I watch House Hunter International, a Caucasian US citizen looking for boat home for him and his Africa descent adopted daughter. I thought it must be nice for all of us if we don't identity ourselves by certain countries, by certain ethnicities, or by anything else.
My husband and me have a talk about this earlier and he quoted a good words from Ajahn Brahm. He said don't forget that we are all human beings not human doing.
Anyway, I wish you all have a blessed day folks 😘, thank you for reading my blog.