I have a funny job.
One day at work might look like hanging out with Edgar- the Haitian teenager pictured in my last post. Another day is a visit from our rep in Congress.
Actually, this is one of my favorite things about the position I get to be in. I get to interact with a pretty wide sample of the human spectrum. From philanthropists who have quite a bit of wealth to villagers in some of the poorest communities in the world.
It’s always a reminder that people are people, even though our life experiences can look so different from person to person. It seems like this should be an easier thing to remember, but when you spend enough time online, you start to see how tempting it is to want to sort everybody into groups of people who are like us and those who aren’t. Or the good guys and bad guys.
All of us are more complex than that. Life can become a frustrating thing when you don’t leave some room for those complexities. One of the kindest things you can do to yourself and to people in general is to receive people as simply human.