Black Or White 

Fiction stories used to tell us that there are two types of worlds; a world for the good people and a world for the bad people. We grow up with the idea of dividing everything in two divisions; good or bad, black or white, them or us.

Our attitude toward binary thinking is really impressive. In his book ‘Factfulness’, Hans Rosling discussed our binary thinking and most important he discussed how we divide the world into developed countries and developing counties. He believes that dividing the world doesn’t make sense anymore. “Most people are in the middle, there is no gap between rich and poor”, Hans said. You can read the book to get more details about Hans’s ideas and statistics. But let’s stick for now to the idea of dividing things and making choices.

Did you ever wonder what if you belong to the other split? And by splits I mean anything with more than one side. It’s not about which country or which city you belong to as Hans discussed. But it’s about which idea or which thought that you believed in, without looking for the bigger picture. It might be about choosing coffee over tea for breakfast. Or it might be choosing paper book over e-book. We make choices everyday in every part of our actions.  Choices help us to make decisions. But are they really helpful? We think that having choices will make the decisions process easier or faster. But not in all cases, choices are able to make it more complex and then hard for you to chose.

What if one choice is what you want and the other is what you need. Which side would you take?

(to be continued …)