Created Equal

Tonight I watched with a small tinge of envy as a friend mindlessly filled up a whole page with cool looking doodles. I, on the other hand, have trouble drawing a straight line, never mind tackling perspective - and anything beyond a cube is like alchemy. But it's simple! they protested. And it was: for them. This is something I have to keep in mind constantly - just because someone is completely talentless in a particular area, it doesn't mean they're stupid. It's so easy to swing one way or the other, to become proud or insecure. But it's completely ridiculous to do anything of the sort. The said friend, for example, couldn't write poetry if he tried and doesn't really understand it when read either. He's a bright guy, a better mathematician than I ever will be, but when it comes to poems (or classic literature for that matter) he's lost. He'd build you a house though. Who's to say which is more important? We all know this is true, at least at some level, but in the mess of life things get forgotten and walls get built. Oh, so you're that kind of person . . . The next step (which we rarely decline) is deciding that the grass is greener somewhere and subsequently become either elitist or forever believing that we were hiding behind the door when all the good stuff was handed out. This idiotic mindset divides more people in our society than race, religion or economic background. Those were the old problems, and we've finally realised them as they make their bow and take a back seat. Well bravo. Let's move on. We now need to come to grips (in our souls, not just our heads) with the fact that all men have indeed been created equal - just not the same.