So I and a dear friend were conversing; how racism and other things affect us. She was telling me about judaism and how most people figure that all jewish people are just rich. And worse that somehow they were always like this. So I remember wanting to challenge the idea that we sometimes conform to generalizations. But this in itself is most complex. Conformity requires much needed loyalty. We need to disregard exceptions. We need to narrow our minds and focus on one perspective. We need to stagnate our own thoughts because in the brisk desert of conformity, our thoughts are the deep, blue and wide waterholes. They don’t exist.

So is it as terrible as it sounds? Well quite frankly, its horrible. Why would you not want to challenge someone else’s view? Especially if it disregards the very foundation of integrity. So when someone at the water cooler points out at purple people and glees, “honestly how did they (imagine large herd of purple people) get this far?” Come up with an equally amazing response such as: “I don’t get it, you obviously made it this far.”

You then have just made ‘me’, the blog me, extremely joyful. And a thank you will be passed along in the form of airmiles points.