Be inspired by those with different abilities

With Disability May Day approaching it always makes me a bit introspective about the social issues that go hand in hand with what is often perceived as minority groups. I'm not comfortable with the word minority, neither am I comfortable with the word disability. I often wonder why there has to be any word at all to describe people, can't we just be human beings?...unless of course people are happy to put themselves into categories and boxes because it enhances their own lives somehow. However categorising ourselves will have the equivalent affect of categorisation from others, and we need to be OK with that if labelling ourselves is what we think we need. We cant call ourselves........if we don't want others to also call us.............An audit of our beliefs may be necessary at times to make sure that we feel comfortable with our own labels that we have created for ourselves and what that means to us. Every time we give ourselves a bit of a belief audit we become more solid in ourselves and with this we become stronger and less affected by those who want to tear us down with their words and actions. We become less of a landing pad of others projections and assumptions. There has been many an injustice based on discrimination and if we want to put this right we can not repeat the mistakes by becoming or staying ignorant and unenlightened. I'd like to think that as each generation passes we are a little more evolved and wiser than the last. Isn't that what evolution is all about? The only way we can surpass what injustices have been done in the past is to acknowledge them, see and learn what went wrong, and don't repeat the same mistakes. To go backwards to satisfy our own ego's in thinking that we are always right will only keep the same record playing over and over again. It can start with the simple things like having conversations with each other. Don't judge those until at the very least you have sat down and had a really good korero with them. Good open, honest, real conversations that are devoid of as much 'jargon' and superficialness as possible. It is from opportunities like these that levels of altered understanding may be possible and human compassion found which can transcend all perceived difference.

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