I had a teacher tell me that man is
born a blank slate – “tabula rasa.” Then
if this is true, man is born good. With
each experience we have, we are shaped. One can look at it as if each
experience is a paint stroke on the original blank canvas we are born with. Each paint stroke leads to the masterpieces
of which we become.
I have also heard that one cannot
help but love a person once one knows the person. In other words, if you come
to know each part of a person you can truly understand them. You now know every
aspect of this person and understand the emotions and thoughts behind their
actions. How can you hate this person
now? You cannot dislike them. You can’t
help but love them.
One of the problems in our world
today is that people do not make a full effort to understand another
person. A person may begin to talk to
another, but the person will then stop talking to him/her on account of a false
understanding. The false understanding is this: you begin to think a certain negative way about another
person because you didn't take more time to learn the truth about that person. You see…one must always be willing to look
deeper into a situation. If this does
not make sense, ask yourself this – is it right to assume negative things of a
person and never give the person a chance to show you that they are one in a
million? So continue the conversations. We have become a generation craving instant gratification, but instant gratification cannot bring us the finer things in life. Instant gratification cannot bring us what we truly desire. Continuing communications and interactions through other means instead of (for example) texting will lead you to know people on a higher level in which the truth is exposed and you believe and fall for the truth instead of lies and negativity.
