WE WERE NEVER MEANT TO BE EQUAL

WE WERE NEVER MEANT TO BE EQUAL — Because No Two People See Life from the Same Perspective — A cow is offered for sale. Four people come to see it. One sees food. One sees something sacred. One sees a dairy business. One sees wealth. The cow is the same. The minds looking at it are not. Now imagine six people receiving exactly the same amount of money. One thinks of power. One thinks of food. One thinks of helping others. One thinks of displaying wealth. One thinks of pleasure. One thinks of investment. The money is equal. What happens to it is not. Why? Because resources enter human minds carrying different experiences, values, surroundings, ambitions, fears and beliefs. In WE WERE NEVER MEANT TO BE EQUAL, Dr.Abhishek Gilara challenges one of our most common assumptions: that fairness should somehow make human beings the same. It cannot. And it should not. This is not an argument against equality of human dignity, rights or fair opportunity. It is an argument for understanding the extraordinary diversity of human beings. Two children raised in the same family can become different. Two people receiving the same opportunity can use it differently. Two entrepreneurs facing the same market can see different futures. Two designers holding the same material can create completely different designs. Because before an outcome appears in the world, something happens inside the mind. Our surroundings influence our thoughts. Our thoughts influence our mindset. Our mindset influences what we notice. What we notice influences our choices. And our choices become our karma. Drawing from entrepreneurship, family legacy, Indian craftsmanship, parenting, spirituality and his own journey as a designer, Dr. Gilara asks readers to stop measuring every human being through one scale. Money is one form of wealth. So is health. Knowledge. Character. Relationships. Time. Creativity. Peace. Contribution. Perhaps the person you envy is simply ahead on the one scale you happen to be looking at. So stop spending your entire life staring across the fence. Know your field. Cultivate your mind. Expand your perspective. Respect different journeys. Do your karma according to your dharma. Because life was never asking you to become equal to somebody else. It was asking something far more important: WHAT WILL YOU DO WITH WHAT HAS BEEN GIVEN TO YOU?