All sorts of disagreements or lack of understanding among people is due to the titles and roles we assign to each other whether it is in personal relationships or professional relationships. To elaborate, people don’t consider others as a whole human but as a specific role to play in a certain scenario. As long as a person limits themselves to their assigned role or tag, there is harmony and what we like to call ‘love’, ‘compatibility’ or whatever other term one fancies. As soon as a person goes beyond their role, there is a clash. Since people are not able to grasp a person as a whole and can only understand them in a certain role or as a conglomeration of many roles, there is a clash! This could be inter-personal, or intra-personal or within self, whatever.
What we fail to understand is that for a human being, sum of individuals doesn’t make whole. One plus one is not equal to two.
And this is the very reason there are roles allotted to people! Because a human mind is unable to grasp entirety, we make divisions. Continue reading
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