Snowflake

I live in a 4-season state. We’re almost coming into fall weather which is a nice reprieve from the summer heat. It’s beautiful when all the colors change, and we all start to get our dens ready for the long winter months. But on that note, I don’t like winter. I don’t like winter one bit. I don’t like the cold, I don’t like the wetness, I don’t like driving, I don’t like the deadness. But one of the things I do like is the genuine quiet, the softness, the pure white soft blanket on the land. And I’m always amazed at how this snow amasses with one snowflake at a time. One tiny piece of frozen liquid falling from the sky meta morphed into a unique one-of-a-kind design. Because of temperature, because of wind, because of nature no snowflake is exactly alike. That’s the epitome of people.

We all come from nature, from different backgrounds and cultures, from different genetics and as we are all similar to some extent, we are all uniquely different. We have blanketed this earth far and wide. But what if snow fell in different colors? What if snow was as sorts of shades of white, black or brown? Would we think differently about it? Would we move to an area that only fits our needs, our thoughts, our beliefs? Would we not acknowledge a different color of snow? Sadly, I think to some degree this would take place and my question is, WHY? It’s still snow is it not? Same snowflake, just a different design. Yet many people act and behave so unbecomingly towards a different snowflake of a person, and I don’t understand where the merit is in that. Skin color may be different, education may be different, topography may be different. Life in one’s own bubble will be different but that doesn’t make it a bad thing. People are not bad, but we out of ego, we out of learned behavior, we out of fear, make it a bad thing.

A snowflake comes to existence by natural selection. We as humans are the same really. I could discuss genetic technology and what that could change but that’s a whole other topic. We are born from our parents no matter the place on earth where that first breath of life is taken. We have the same color of blood and the same DNA as a species. It’s the learned and taught behaviors, belief systems, shallow thinking that thinks we are different. We make ourselves different diametrically in our brains but all in all we are all just unique snowflakes really. The same makeup just a different look. I personally enjoy experiencing all types of people. I enjoy what makes them different, I enjoy being able to learn from another what makes them different. Without all of them we would have no beautiful snow. Each and every one of you is part of this makeup. Each and every one of you is unique. But you’re still a snowflake.