Why Is Everyone Different? 11/29/2019

A person just asked me, “why is that we are all humans with eyes, ears, mouth, noses, brains, yet we learn in different ways?” That got me to thinking, “why are we all humans, yet we have so many differences- in eating, in music, in living?” I originally concluded that although we are common in our being human, we are different because of our environments, experiences, and perceptions of those environments and experiences. I thought that our perception of good and bad has formed our beliefs, which I thought explained our responses and conclusions to our experiences. I could go on to say that because our perceptions differ, we do things differently. However, now, I must argue, why does our perception even differ from one another in the first place? If two people went through the exact same situation in the exact same place, shouldn’t they have the same perception of the experience? I would say that the answer to that is yes, and that is what has formed the communities that we have today- why certain types of people have grouped together. Therefore, perspective may be an answer as to why we have differences. For example, if one person was attacked by another person, people who can personally relate with the victim’s experience would side with the victim, and people who can personally relate to the attacker’s experience may side with the attacker. One could counter this with asking how the conflict even began if everyone were to be the same. To this, I would say that it is human nature. We are flawed creatures, we are not perfect individuals, therefore, we cannot form a perfect society, hence differences in life, which can be good, and can be bad. In all, although we are all humans with human features, we are different from one another because we are flawed, and cannot be perfect, identical, or perfectly identical, consequently affecting our perceptions of environments, and the experiences that we have in these environments.