Tolerant

Do you remember those big computers that we used to use as kids? They required a huge CPU, a trashy monitor, and a wired keyboard and mouse.

Okay, how about waiting for hours to be able to visit a website when you were using 2G internet back in the day?

Alright, I don’t want to take you on a trip down memory lane - even though that’s something some Instagram pages are obsessed with lately.

I have a client who lives in California. 

In Los Angeles.

And every week, he mentions something about somebody either being mugged, a store being looted, people dying because of other people - and whatnot.

I always ask him, ”Bruv, why don’t you move? And not even to another country - maybe just some other state?”

And every time, he replies, “It’s fine. It doesn’t happen as often now. Just maybe once a week, and we’re kind of used to it at this point.”

In contrast, I also know some other people who are from different parts of the world who haven’t seen anything like this. In fact, I can mention a few names right here of the people who are still scarred for life only because they saw somebody get stitches and can’t take it out of their mind.

But isn’t it interesting that people could be traumatized on so many levels and yet they could still develop a skin to it?

For you, seeing somebody get beat up in an alley and losing a couple of teeth might shock you for a long time, but for maybe me, I’d sleep just fine that night.

All of us have different tolerance levels.

And that’s being used against us.

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I went to Chandigarh last week.

On my 3-day stay, I saw a beautiful city with plenty of trees, good roads, cabs, auto rickshaws, and whatever.

But do you know where else you can find a city like Chandigarh?

EVERYWHERE.

India as a country is becoming almost the same everywhere.

I bet the Starbucks in your city and the Starbucks in mine also probably have the same menu.

I bet the Burger King by the corner of your street tastes like shit - exactly the same as the one by the corner of my street.

And this isn’t just India.

It’s practically the whole world.

Nothing is beautiful. Everything is standardized. Everything looks the same. You can never go through a town now and be like, “Wow! Look how much energy has been put into this town! I’ll never let anybody mess with this town.”

But no, everything should look the same.

And when everything looks the same, why even care, right? 

“Let’s move on to another location. It all looks the same anyway.”

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The world around you moves quickly.

In just a few years, we can graduate from 3G to 4G, and then to 5G.

In just a few years, your idea of differentiating a man from a woman could be changed/

In just a few years, you would be made to tolerate anything they want you to.

But before you see yourself “getting used to” something, stop and analyze whether it’s something you should even be falling for.

Stop being tolerant of everything.