I drove to Little Rock last week to attend my 50th High School Reunion. A good number of my classmates attended. I enjoyed myself thoroughly, and there were some interesting dynamics to observe.
Fifty years ago, if you would have placed the same people in a study hall or in the cafeteria the groups would have congregated differently. The football players would have sat at one table, the cheerleaders at another. The musicians would be a table at their own, so would the basketball players, Cherokees, or the really smart kids. We all had our groups and we seldom mingled.
Fifty years later, none of that kind of segregation occurred. Everyone worked the room, learning about each other’s lives, their ups and downs, etc. It was nice to observe how age and wisdom had taught each of us the value of everyone in the room. We all had value, exceptional value, and the labels had disappeared.
Worth thinking about isn’t it?
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