The world would be a genuinely boring place if all of us were the exact same \u2013 if we liked the exact same things, wore the exact same clothes, liked the exact same music, played the exact same sport, had the same talents.\u00a0\u00a0 Don\u2019t you agree?<\/p>\n
Yet we often spend time judging people precisely for being different when we should be celebrating the differences we each bring to the table.<\/p>\n
I received a letter today from my son Dalton (who is out serving a mission for the LDS Church in Mississippi).\u00a0 In the letter he shared thoughts on this very subject that I felt were perfect to share with all of you:<\/p>\n
\u201cA lesson I’ve learned and I’m continuing to learn: Never judge someone because they don’t have the same passion as you. If we all had the same passion about basketball as the next guy, there would be no need for the players, the fans, the announcers, any of it. Cause it wouldn’t be cool. If we all cared, then there wouldn’t be a point. Same with fashion. Or wakeboarding. Or snowboarding. Or golf. Cause I really don’t like golf. It’s like… dude… give me a piece of dynamite, cause I can shoot that ball a lot farther with that than with a golf\u00a0club that’s all I’m saying.\u00a0 Much love to everyone, no matter what your passion is.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n What a great message and a great reminder!\u00a0 A little bit of silliness on the golf comments, but his overall message is\u00a0exactly right \u2013 we shouldn\u2019t judge others for being different than we are because it\u2019s those differences that make the world amazing and wonderful.\u00a0 It\u2019s those differences that make all our little individual puzzle pieces fit into one beautiful picture.\u00a0 And if we could all start to appreciate those differences and celebrate those differences our word would be a much nicer place.<\/p>\n After all, some of us are oranges, some are bananas, some are apples and some are grapes, but together we make a dang good fruit salad!\u00a0 So bust out the whipped cream and enjoy \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n I will leave you with this great quote:<\/p>\n \u201cDifferences are not intended to separate, to alienate.\u00a0 We are different precisely in order to realize our need of one another.\u201d\u00a0<\/span> -Desmond Tutu<\/p>\n Have a great day everyone!\u00a0 Go appreciate our differences \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n ~Amy<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The world would be a genuinely boring place if all of us were the exact same \u2013 if we liked the exact same things, wore the exact same clothes, liked the exact same music, played the exact same sport, had the same talents.\u00a0\u00a0 Don\u2019t you agree? Yet we often spend time judging people precisely for […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1771,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1856,1021,308,501,1853,278,590,179,1857,361,1846,1850,1844,1852,1053,324,764,1845,1842,35,1360,351,1851,931,1849,1848,1847,1841,1855,1843,1682,1448,1854,1510,1166],"class_list":["post-3654","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-alienate","tag-amazing","tag-apple","tag-appreciate","tag-banana","tag-basketball","tag-celebrate","tag-dalton","tag-demond-tutu","tag-differences","tag-different","tag-fruit-salad","tag-golf","tag-grap","tag-judge","tag-judgment","tag-lds","tag-lesson-reminder","tag-letter","tag-love","tag-message","tag-missionary","tag-orange","tag-passion","tag-picture","tag-pieces","tag-puzzle","tag-same","tag-separate","tag-snowboarding","tag-son","tag-wakeboarding","tag-whipped-cream","tag-wonderful","tag-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3654","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3654"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3654\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3659,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3654\/revisions\/3659"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1771"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3654"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}