Diversity

Today is March 31st, the last day of the month. Where has the time gone? Seriously, though. How is tomorrow already April 1st––the fourth month into the year. I mean, next month (May) is my birthday. That’s nuts.

Once I was done with work today, I was walking to pick up my graded sources paper, when I ran into Olivia (my sister). Naturally, as I was trekking across campus to get to the JKB, I was all business. I was walking quickly, looking at the ground, and then up at the occasional tree when all of a sudden, out of the corner of my eye, someone walks up to me very closely and begins to follow me. I was a little bit creeped out, but looked up to see who it was. It was, in fact, my silly sister. She said she had also finished working for the week and was asking where I was going. I said I needed to pick up my paper, and so we went over together.

Walking home with Olivia was a nice change. We don’t sit down and just talk about things in general that often. So spending the fifteen minute walk home with her was refreshing. Olivia is a superb sister. While we don’t have all of the same interests, I am grateful that we are so different from each other. She has such different ideas than myself, so she helps me understand things in a different light––something that I treasure deeply. In fact, all of my siblings are very different from myself. But from our diversity, we learn in ways that we never could if we were all the same. Our different methods for doing things helps us all to appreciate the unique qualities of the individual. I can’t express how much I love my family. We are all different, but are all perfectly compatible.