Have you ever gone people-watching? You know, when you just sit down somewhere in a public spot with a lot of pedestrian traffic and watch people as they pass. You may not be looking for anything, or you may be focusing on one thing. Whatever the case may be, you will always find that human beings are just plain-old weird!
It's not that I am calling the individuals strange beings, but that all of humankind itself is weird. Everybody has that weird niche that sets them apart, whether it be an extra bounce in one's step, the way one talks on a cell phone, the sounds one makes while eating, or the uncanny ability to fall asleep on a park bench with not a care in the world about who around is watching as small drops of drool drip onto one's newly bought Lacoste polo. It is just a natural phenomena. Since Homo sapiens do not live by mere instinct, we all have that free will and reason that the rest of the organisms in nature lack, giving us a chance to make different choices and to develop different habits than our fellow animals.
My apologies for boring you with a biology lesson in the middle of my story, but I think I proved my point. The beauty of people-watching is that it teaches you how best to interact with other people, but more so how to really appreciate the beauty of diversity. If everyone walked the same, talked the same, ate the same, and slept the same the world would be a rather boring place. It is that one person I see falling asleep on the park bench drooling on theirself that makes me smile and say to my Father, "Thank you, God, for creating me the way I am, even if I smack when I eat a hot dog!"
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