Colored Vision

If all like the colors that they are looking at, they would like others too.

Imagine a bunch of children at a fair. Now fairs are very colorful places with lots of people and lots of things to see. Suppose each of those children in the bunch has a different colored glass. Then of course, no two of them will agree on what color a particular thing is because they see it differently. What is green for one is blue for someone else or even red for another. Interesting don't you think? May be not because you already know that they have different colored glasses which perfectly explains their perspective but suppose this knowledge was not known, wouldn't it seem a very unlikely situation except perhaps if the children have learned their colors wrong.

I think any group of people are like those bunch of children each with an intrinsic colored glass for himself/herself.
Of course in this case they are not aware of the glasses. Each of them think that the way they look at the world is the only way to look at it. That certainly leads to disagreements and stereotyping or may be many other things that I cannot think of now. And when someone says "I don't like so and so", he/she is instantly pounced upon by others, even  labelled as mad. If it is a notion that is very rare, one might start to doubt oneself too and make efforts to follow the crowd, change the color of his glasses without knowing what color to change to. 

There are times when diversity is given importance, not adequately may be  or not in a way that it should be. Not as something that is natural but rather treated as something special, something supernatural. I don't know if that works. If you ask someone to 'not think of a blue elephant', that will be the first image that comes to his mind, followed by a cross may be. So it really didn't work - the not thinking part, did it? So is there a different way?

I think accepting diversity can start only with ourselves. If we accept ourselves not as a part of the crowd but rather as a unique person with our own notion and dreams, then we can appreciate another person's difference. Only when we are proud of our differences, can we let others be proud of theirs. Only when we are ready to stand for the preservation of our individual traits, can we stand for others. So in my opinion we should start with us. We should learn to say "Isn't it great, I am different" instead of saying "Poor thing, he/she is different". Trust me, no one will disagree, in some way we all are different from each other. Wouldn't you say then  if each of us like like being ourselves, we would like others to be themselves too?