A "Black Swan Event" is when the unexpected occurs, causing a huge mindshift and change in how the world works. People never imagined that Black Swans existed, until the discovery of the first Black Swan... (as per book "The Black Swan", by Nassim Nicholas Taleb, 2007, that sold over 3 million copies)

Is a perception change the next Black Swan Event? Consider that by changing perception we might change the world. Look at everyday things from different angles. Find beauty in the unexpected...
Change our thinking, change our actions, change our world!

See that all people are part of God's puzzle and have something to give. Black swans do exist. The ugly duckling was actually a swan who needed to discover himself and where he fitted and be who he was meant to be. To the last, the lost and the least, you are beautiful as you are.
May all who visit this page feel God's touch and experience His blessing...

Sunday 10 March 2013

What May You be Accused Of?

You are aghast when you discover that a specific tribal people are living in horrendous conditions in another country. How can the people who live there allow that, you wonder?

You forget, or perhaps are totally unaware, that people from that other country look on you and your country aghast, because of the living conditions of many people where you live too.

Yet, most residents of both countries go about their lives each day not thinking about the poverty and the overcrowding in a sector of their society. They are too busy living their own routines, and problems in their home countries are a vague headline in a newspaper. Perhaps the majority of the population even supports the way things are, as this is the way it has always been, and it is culturally acceptable. Or maybe many don't agree with the status quo, but don't know how they can change things as the problem is too immense, and surely the government needs to put things right, they think.

We tend to look on all residents of a country as the same, if we find out that atrocities happen there, yet most everyday people are doing the best they can in living from day to day.

What do you see as wrong in another country? Yet, what could you yourself be accused of, if a blanket generalisation was put over your country? And would this be fair to you?

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