Good Morning,
My current read is “The Undiscovered Self” by Carl G. Jung (http://www.amazon.com/Undiscovered-Self-C-G-Jung/dp/0691018944). The first section talks about how society is built up on the overall average of its members, but that is not a true reflection of one individual. Sounds deep, I know. Jung gives a good example.
If a pile of rocks has an average weight of 148 grams per rock, you would be hard pressed to randomly pick up a rock and have it weigh exactly 148 grams.
What is average anyway? We can describe it, but have we every really seen it. Have you ever had a time where someone introduced you to ‘The Average’ person? Has anyone ever said this is the average German Shepherd, or this is the average baseball?
If rules and regulations are made for the average person, and well, we cannot find one of them, then what do we do?
This means that the rules and regulations that make up our organizations, our communities, our laws, etc., are made up for the sum total of their members, and may, in fact, not represent a single individual based on their own personal needs.
Here is another analogy; can you ever find a temperature in your office which is acceptable to everyone in the office? The temperature could be set to 65 or 70 degrees, or in some cases 72 or 75 degrees. Each of these temperatures are fine in general. Of course there will be folks who only feel comfortable at 80 degrees and others at 60 (offices which can set different temperatures by cubical will be the wave of the future).
This means we have to be more accepting of our organizations and the vastness of differences within our communities. Everyone is different and even though we have rules and regulations for everyone, there will be those who will seem to not fit in or care to follow the rules, and that could be okay.
Our rules and guidelines should be opened up and be scalable (to a point) to cover the needs of the individual, and not the average person (who may not even exist).
We should also be accepting of the differences of each person as their interests and beliefs will deviate from what is considered average.
In looking at this whole situation again, maybe there is nothing truly average at all.
Enjoy!
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