A world without differences!

I got a thought provoking comment to my last blog - "I just ponder - WHY is there so much inequality". This blog is a ripple effect of that muse.

It's interesting to imagine what would the world be like if there was no inequality and there were no differences - would everyone look alike, have the same voice, wear the same clothes, have the same car - the same colour as well perhaps, fall sick at the same time, feel the same things at the same time, think the same things at the same time, dream the same dreams too? If everyone were to think the same things and feel the same feelings, it would be rather funny, everyone would want to marry the same girl? Aah - would there be girls and guys in the first place - because that's introducing a difference isn't it? Well, I am probably taking the thoughts too far! Indeed, coming to think about this, very soon we realize that a world without any inequalities would be monotonous. But that's not a good enough reason for why there are differences, probably.

Looking around us, ants, bees, flies, mosquitoes, leaves, fruits are probably some examples where differences are minimal - though not fully absent. Maybe all crows, sparrows, parrots, dogs, cats look the same? Well, go to a pet lover and they will disagree. They will spot a number of differences between 2 twin pups too!

However, if we think more about living things we find that patterns are consistant. There is a replication of patterns and structures. Like the human body is structured in the same way or follow a finite number of basic patterns, the various trees do the same process of photosynthesis to generate energy and grow, birds use the same mechanism to fly, all dogs bark the same way.

The only place where one can find absolute equality is in non-living things. Living things tend to have dissimilarities of some kind or the other for sure. Eventually when a tree dries up, the characteristic of the wood is more or less the same, no matter what tree it was. We can debate that point, but leaving the debate aside, the qualities of the non living item emerging after life ceases to exist are less inequal than the living thing that existed before.

It is interesting how the usefulness of a living thing is only so long as there is life in it. The non-living things could in theory remain useful for eternity! Which is very paradoxical, isn't it? Given a choice all of us would want to become immortal and would want everyone around us to remain with us forever and we would not care so much if one of our material belongings gets lost or damaged - after all, we suffer more when we lose our near and dear ones than when we lose our dearest items!

If differences are associated with life and constants are associated with death (aka non-living things) - we are compelled to enter a few other realms of thought altogether. A world without differences is probably the world of the soul and the mind whilst the world we live in is full of differences because we don't live with our souls - rather we live with our organs - brain, eyes, ears,hands!

Probably if we were more soulful in our ways of living, we would have lesser differences?

I am sure this is not the end of this thought process - it has tread a winding path and this path has lots more scope for wild imagination !! :-)