Our generation is full of people that only care through the light shining back at them on their smartphone screen. Due to the fact that we are covered by a virtual shield, we tend to speak out of the passion that lives inside of our fingertips. What we don’t understand is that all of these words resinate the same in our minds. Whether typed or spoken, words are words.
People are all designed with different emotional structures. Believe it or not, a man that is twelve feet tall might be as sensitive as a female that is four feet tall. We have created these emotional stereotypes by which we base our everyday conversations off of. Basically, what I am getting at is that every person stands equally on the spectrum of emotional value. I, personally don’t react sensitively to many situations. I don’t take offense to stereotypical sensitive subjects the same way most people do. This leads me to sometimes say things that tend to hurt the feelings of many people without my knowledge. Long story short, take into consideration that all people have gone through different situations and those situations now lead them to react to everything based on past experience.
Take this scenario as an example. Say that this dude loves roller coasters. He always rides roller coasters and even owns a season pass to Six Flags. Unfortunately, next week when he goes to Six Flags his favorite roller coaster is going to stop at the very top of the two hundred foot peak for three hours. This situation is going to now instill in him a fear of roller coasters and heights due to the traumatic experience. Now, whenever you make a joke regarding how lame it is to be afraid of roller coasters, the guy that had the traumatic experience is not going to find it so funny.
I’ve recently began working a lot on communication. Transitioning from careless teenager to responsible adult is not a task for the weak. Whenever I have to deal with a situation in which I have said things to somebody that offended them, I let them know that the situation matters to me because I care about them. Personal relationship is so important these days because it isn’t necessary. We don’t need physical friends because we have internet ones; but what is going to happen when your wifi goes out? You have to make personal connection with the people that were there for you before Tom from Myspace was a variable. Sorry to break the news to you, Tom doesn’t have your back. Just the opposite actually, Tom has never seen your back because he is limited to your wifi connection. At the end of the day, you are going to rely on the trustworthiness of the physical relationships you have built.
Just like the variation of flowers in a field on the desktop of your computer, we are all built in different variations. Some of us purple with sensitivity, others red with passion. We represent the purpose of our words by the way that we react to others. Always reinvent the way that you process the colors of other flowers. We are all different hues and saturations so accept every different variety and learn to live with the different colors that makeup our society.
I know this all sounds vastly cliché but it is such a necessary lesson for young people to learn. People are more than aesthetics. In a time in which our society is growing emotionally detached due to lack of physical reliance, we must learn to grow emotionally connected to one another. I challenge you all to think before you speak and always be patient with those that react on a different emotional level than you do. Become reactive to other’s point of view and never be quick to judge. Take humanity by the horns and kick inconsiderateness in the butt!
Written by: Lyncoln Doggett
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