Everyone Counts in the Universal Book of Life
“Everyone is worth knowing.” O. Henry Most everyone compares themselves to other people. Sometimes we see ourselves as “less than” and sometimes we see ourselves as “more than” or “better than. “ As a result we categorize people. There are city slickers and there are country bumpkins. There are yuppies and there are rednecks. And who could forget hippies? Or preppies? Or nerds? Here in the desert, I categorize men based in their choice of footwear. To me, men who wear flip-flops are “cool” and men who wear sandals are “geeks.” Of course, men who wear socks with sandals are “super geeks.” Now stop and think for a moment about the ways in which you categorize and label people. The point of all of this is that by categorizing and labeling people, we determine in our own minds who is worth knowing and who is not worth knowing—before we ever have a chance to “know” them. In doing so, we eliminate many people from our lives by unfairly judging them as being “too cool” or ...