Perspective

Perspectives are powerful. Perspectives are inspiring. Perspectives are easily ignored. Everyone has grown up with completely different lives and backgrounds and stories, yet when we enter the working world, suddenly everyone is expected to be the same. Everyone goes home to a different home and a different family and a different storyline, but it can be nearly impossible to tell based on appearance.

Peoples' perspectives about money, for example, are easily shaped by their adolescence. When people grow up in the upper class, it can be nearly impossible for them to connect with people who grow up in the lower class. "Get a job, make money, save up." It seems so simple from their point of view, making it difficult for them to comprehend the struggle it is for some people to afford something as simple as a decent pair of shoes.

Instead of ignoring perspectives and attempting to put everyone on the same playing field, society should embrace our differences. We all have different stories and different environmental influences that have shaped our opinions. Do not shut these out or be ashamed. They make us different. Unique. Empathetic.