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?