Make It Your Business To Get To Know Someone

[BeeNee]

When we were young, most of us had no idea what hate was. Whenever we were in a room with other children, we just looked around, and made it our mission to get to know one another and be friends because we were taught for the most part to respect one another and treat others the way we want to be treated.

Now, I'm scrolling through some questions and takes and its like, "do you think I can like someone who isn't my race," or, "how do I deal with someone who is overweight," or "can I be friends with someone with a different religion," and so fourth and so on. If you put the shoe on the other foot for a second, imagine if someone thought they needed to ask a set of strangers whether it was okay to even think about associating or getting to know you rather than just trying to do that on their own. It seems so strange to think that someone would need permission just to say hello.

Why have we seemingly forgotten that we are all just human beings with the same wants, needs, and desires? When did we start automatically giving up on people before we even give them the chance to show us who they really are? Why has it become such an impossible idea to treat others the way we would like to be treated?

I feel I've been lucky in life to have been exposed to so many different people from all aspects of life and from all around the globe, especially when I was younger. I wouldn't go so far as to say I'm colorblind, because I don't believe in that sentiment, but I just appreciate different people and what their experiences do for the enrichment of my own life. I think one of the worst things that can happen for a person is being sheltered from these experiences or closing themselves off to meeting new and interesting people. How do you ever grow if everyone and everything is just like you? I don't think you can or it's at a really slow pace.

The way we as people become less closed off and less ignorant about other people is if we stop depending on what someone else has to say about what and who a person is, and find out for ourselves. I was told a fair portion of people in my life acted or lived a certain way, and if I had just believed all that stupidity, I would have never come to understand the truth behind the ignorance for myself. You want to stop the cycles of hatred, the phobias, the isms...stop putting up walls and pointing fingers and not bothering to see the people right in front of you because when you do that, you invite other people to do the same to you and then no one is talking to anyone and everyone's walking around afraid of everyone else, and friendships and understanding can't ever happen because no one is allowing it to flourish.

You don't need permission to be someone's friend. If you want to date someone that you've never dated before, do that and find out what it's like for yourself. Stop being afraid of people you know nothing about and whom you have never bothered to even try to get to know, and just say hello and see where it goes from there.

[Other_Tommy_Wiseau]

"Why have we seemingly forgotten that we are all just human beings with the same wants, needs, and desires?"

The sad part is, it's actually a lie. The fact that we live in the least violent time and arguably most socially conscious era in human history should tell you something. But ridding the indoctrination of stupidity in humans is a long and tedious process. Just think. It took until the early 1900s out of thousands of years for the most advanced countries to recognize women as people. The 1800s to stop enslavement and another 100 years before recognizing those same people should have rights. If you want a realistic idea of when society will probably evolve beyond the blatant stupidity and ignorance that currently exists, in my opinion, at least another 300 years. Closer to 500 just to undo all the dumb shit and ass backwards thinking that has been in our society as a whole for the past 4000 years

[ieshaahmed786]

A perfect take. 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻 no other words to describe it.

[Library]

This is a great myTake. I like getting to know people.

[Adigelunar]

oGood post