We are all the same, but different.

I recover a reflection on the values and countervalues that I did in first grade, when I started teaching and had not yet developed my professional and personal part related to education. I accompanied it with a video to make it more visual.

We’re all the same but different. We have one thing in common that in turn makes us have something that stands out between us: personality. But what is personality? Why does everyone have a different one?

In order to answer this question, we can turn to values. As I have been analyzing, values are what constitutes all the actions and attitudes that determine us, which, in other words, are a fundamental part that shapes us as people, that makes us stand out and differentiates us from each other.

Another question that may come to mind is why if all values are equal for all, they make us different. After so much meditation, I have come to the conclusion that it may be because, although they are the same, everyone understands them in one way or another. That is to say, for someone freedom may be to live out of prison and for others it may be to live without heeding any law, any rule, or depending on anyone because we can consider it a limitation of freedom. There we would have a difference in the way of being; the former will be happy having the life that the vast majority of us have, and other people will never find complete freedom because, if they break those rules we talked about, they will end up without any freedom. Or the same for some tolerance is not to bother sharing space with someone of another skin color and for others it is to integrate them into their group without having regard to their appearance. So we might think that it all depends on how we perceive the meaning of that value.

Another thing that affects our way of being is that, although values always exist, there are some that we haven’t had contact with, so we don’t take them into account. For example, love. We believe that love is not a value if we have not had experiences with it, but, from my point of view, we have all at some point in our lives borne it in mind, even if we have not realized it. Because love is everywhere, there is not only the love we speak of when we refer to falling in love. There is a love of family, of friendship, even a love of self. But since we don’t have it in our conception as a value, we don’t include it in that personality we’ve been talking about since the beginning.

We can talk about many values, not just the ones I mentioned because they are not even half of those that exist. But, as in everything, there are negative values; countervalues. Prejudices arise from countervalues, which we all do. But where do we get by prejudging? Why don’t we get to know each other before we judge? We can avoid missing things that we wouldn’t miss if we didn’t have those judgments against someone or something.

In conclusion, we could learn from those mistakes, those countervalues and turn them into something positive. If we get this, we’ll have a lot to gain. We would value the world we live in, the people who make it up, and we would pay less attention to everything we are told is wrong, accepting ourselves.

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