DIVERSITY.

Sometimes I sit and ask myself why God won’t duplicate the over 6 billion people on earth but rather creates an original anytime He wants a new man or woman on earth? Why didn’t he create the same species of plant and animal all over the planet? Why did he create different water bodies; seas, streams, lakes, lagoons, wells, springs and so on?  As if that was not enough even with man he created all manner of skin colors and looks, no two palms are the same? Wonderful!

But, in all this I have come to see that this world would have been a freaking boring place if all humans were of the same color and look, had the same body odor and spoke only one language.

Assuming all men were wearing the same clothes and putting on the same kind of shoes and socks to the same places every time. Oh my God! This world indeed would have been not just boring but annoying and irritating. Assuming there was only one kind of food world over with the same taste. Would anyone in his right frame of mind want to travel beyond his locality to see what is elsewhere? Would there have been anything like tourism or cultural diversity; would man have had any sense of taste and desire to appreciate anything?

Would any man want to work if all men did the same kind of work, work in the same industry and took home the same salary and benefit? If all women looked alike, would any man be able to identify his wife? If all men built the same kind of houses and there the same streets and street lights everywhere, I don’t think any man would ever be able to find his way home.

However, because of man’s inability to embrace diversity, it has become a dividing tool and has become a destructive missile in the hands of an unable man. Many conflicts world over to come into being as a result of our inability to harness our differences to our advantage. I believe there would be no need for mediation and peacekeeping anywhere in the world if we are to acknowledge our diversity as humans and respect each other’s difference of opinion, religion, tribe, affiliation, desire, taste, and so on.

God made no mistake in creating DIVERSITY.

John Benjamin Eshun. © 2012