The Path to Egg'quality

Did you ever see that egg meme going around a few years back. It was a teaching lesson or something about how different eggs look differently on the outside, but you crack them open, the yolk is the same color and shape on the inside. Funny enough, when I think of inclusivity, I think of those eggs.

I want to say I have no prejudice of any sort, and how I see all people as they are, which is human. But politically correct or not, inclusivity and equality have a lot more to them then a simple egg analogy.

However the world often seems beyond challenging. If you look too closely at all of the causes that are unjust in this world, you live a life of consumed dissatisfaction. However, if you don't pay attention to the problems the world faces, you live a life of ignorance or of being naïve. No matter what we do, we are bordering a line of the opposite of another.

As an adult, my brain is at the ripe age of 25, that should be considered fully developed, however I find myself questioning everything more than ever.

I have always been told I speak my mind more candidly then others, sometimes that's a compliment, others its after I accidently offended someone. Nonetheless, we have people out here who are afraid to be politically incorrect or completely unafraid of causing harm by ill censored views. Sometimes I think we need to go back to something as simple as a second graders egg analogy. Not to not acknowledge the change the world could so desperately use, but to instill kindness at the base, which is how inside we are all human.

I think that lesson is taught because it is a good representation to teach children a complex topic that instills community, inclusion and equality. A concept so simple to teach when young because they have no prior molding to think differently. I think we need to take a note out of a second graders book and remember that kindness is a large part of what encourages inclusion and its something that can so easily be lost in the mix of life as we grow up and get older.

On another note, I am in the hospitality industry and am empathic. This combination makes me both constantly overwhelmed at my job, but also understanding of peoples different forms of crisis's. I always try to be as understanding as I would want someone to be for me. I think empathy and kindness are easily lost in the selfishness of ourselves. life is hard, some days I don't even want to exist, and its easy to be taken over and caught in a storm of our own life and problems.

But what about that one time you complimented someone on their hair, or notice something about them for their character. We all think it, we all feel it, it is part of being human and living in this society. But what keeps you from saying it? Why is showing kindness become an obligation instead of common courtesy, instead of just being intentional to raise another human up?

Are you afraid of making a fool of yourself, being politically incorrect, or drawing undesired attention to yourself? We all have reason why we act the way we are. I can tell you it is really hard to be kind to someone complaining about something that they caused themselves, or never actively tried to solve. Most of us try to teach our children about being a good person, being kind and aware of everyone around them. Nonetheless, somehow as adults we lose touch of that aspiration for ourselves.

Inclusivity and inclusion is a large topic to take on, one not to be taken on alone, and although there are ways we can work towards being better for the unity and equality of this world we were born into. Something everyone can do, including myself is to practice a little bit of empathy and show kindness to those around you. As I remind myself everyday, kindness is free and can make the biggest impact. And we are all just different hatched eggs in this world that are beautiful in our own way, and inside ourselves we are one in the same egg, because we are all human.