new leaves

As the trees lose their leaves, I continue to turn new ones over. I'm realizing my strengths and I can't always be so afraid to do what I want to do. Yes, other people may find it not suiting their tastes, but I have to explore the possibilities of who I am. I enjoy exploring and trying new things, regardless of how well its been done by someone else, because what I do, what I think and feel and know, is intrinsically different than any other person that's ever existed.

That is the beauty and genius of humanity: our vast differences; all of our myriad differences that combine in a random soup of genetic matter. And what do we get? Humanity. Patterned chaos. Each of our traits is distributed evenly and well throughout the species. Extremely desirable traits are reserved for a minority, while the majority shares with each other equally the fruits of our genes. The minorities at the other end then become the possibilities for change in contrast to those "perfect few" that enjoy the attention of desirable traits. The few on the opposite often make the desirable traits into undesirable traits, allowing them the strength of conviction to pursue change in the majority. If they can change the majority to accept their desirable traits and ignore their undesirable traits, then they can affect change in the overall scheme of the species.

As an example, consider the blind. The causes for blindness are quite numerous, but obviously it would either be something that you are born with or some loss of sight later in life; it could be considered to have been a biological or mechanical process; it could have been sudden or have happened over time. The challenge of the blind is then to convince their peer or social group that their blindness does not affect their other abilities. Truly, in the case of blindness, those that cope with the loss of the sense better than most - that is, those that stand out, head and shoulders above the rest - the ones that are exceptional regardless of handicapped, or rather, the "perfect few" that have coping schemes so good that they can operate at levels above those of most sighted people. These people are the ones that affect change, not because of their handicaps, but because of their inherent abilities and people's preconceptions of what it means to be "able."

Anyhow, yeah, I think I'm done rambling for the day.