๐ฆ๐ฝ๐ผ๐ ๐๐ต๐ฒ ๐ฑ๐ถ๐ณ๐ณ๐ฒ๐ฟ๐ฒ๐ป๐ฐ๐ฒ?
I had an interesting chat with my daughter earlier this week, during our car ride to school.
Seeing that she was quietly absorbed in the screen, I asked what she was doing.
โI am playing a Spot the Difference game.โ
I see.
โSpot the differenceโ was one of the activities I loved to attempt in my childhood.
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During those days, computers were not so readily available, and smartphones came much later in my adulthood. Conventional activities such as crossword puzzles, mazes, word searches, and spot-the-difference were often included in newspapers and magazines. Those were my leisure activities.
I told her, โI played Spot the Difference when I was young, but I often struggled with spotting the differences. I find it easier to spot the similarities.โ (I have an inherent weak sense of sight, which also makes spotting differences much more challenging for me๐คญ).
This chat with her got me pondering.
Instead of spotting the differences, it is indeed easier to find similarities. I thought of how this might be relevant to our interactions with people.
Instead of trying to spot differences, can we focus more on finding common ground?
We are all different, yet fundamentally, we are all the same.
May I offer this to you as we wrap up the work week?
