Since today was my book review reading day, this one nicely ties in to how we view the past, the point of view we take and how maybe it should shift, from focus on subjects we think are important to more generalized growth of civilization topics thus doing away with labels that lead to warring ways. This is a brief synopsis of the long book review that raises some interesting points. I am not sure we can congregate in our similarities, because the nature of man, is our differences....just as an article on The Future Cities I read in one of my morning papers today talks about how the cities reflect the tastes, desires, culture etc., of the people that build them.
In my opinion we differ for many reasons. For a society to grow we need to have leaders, who create companies that employ people, we need to work so we can earn leisure to be creative, to think about how to make a better life, to create art and music etc., a great society needs all kinds of people so we can learn to love in all the ways intended by the universe.
Think about it...how creative can you be, to build a world that will help others? The smallest acts of creativity can make life better for someone else. Often when teaching school, I thought how we make our own lives, sad and depressed, happy and joyful, and it is all up to us, to set out to find the formula.
Just helping others in need by small acts of kindness, can change body chemistry, but it needs to be done regularly, just as exercise for the body, there has to be a mental exercise for body chemistry to change . But then what do I know....I am the one that says, we need to teach self awareness in the early grades....maybe if we talk about a change in teaching self awareness and helping others, the unmeasurable rewards will bring the needed change.
In my opinion we differ for many reasons. For a society to grow we need to have leaders, who create companies that employ people, we need to work so we can earn leisure to be creative, to think about how to make a better life, to create art and music etc., a great society needs all kinds of people so we can learn to love in all the ways intended by the universe.
Think about it...how creative can you be, to build a world that will help others? The smallest acts of creativity can make life better for someone else. Often when teaching school, I thought how we make our own lives, sad and depressed, happy and joyful, and it is all up to us, to set out to find the formula.
Just helping others in need by small acts of kindness, can change body chemistry, but it needs to be done regularly, just as exercise for the body, there has to be a mental exercise for body chemistry to change . But then what do I know....I am the one that says, we need to teach self awareness in the early grades....maybe if we talk about a change in teaching self awareness and helping others, the unmeasurable rewards will bring the needed change.
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