Variety

I'm not even sure where to start. This is another of those that has been on my mind a while and coherent structure along a linear path eludes me.

Variety is the spice of life. If you are an adult you've heard this. If you are a teenager you've likely heard this. If you are in the generation that is soon to come, I doubt most will ever hear this phrase.
It is a statement of society and culture that will have this old statement disappearing from us.

Ok, this has pissed me off for a while and I have to get this off my chest. People will say it's just a saying with a good sentiment but I think it is a big problem. When it comes to race relations they say how we all need to be color blind or some stupid variation of it. Now, before you throw stones hear me out. Or not, I don't really care. Let's apply this stupidity to the rest of life and see what the 2 people who read this think.

Sight. What if everything was one color? We maybe could see outlines but essentially it was one color.
Smell. What if we had no sense of smell? Good or bad it would get old.
Taste. What if there was only a dull sense of flavor and everything tasted like chicken as the joke goes?

Where is the joy in the diversity? The God of the universe created a seemingly infinite number of sights, sounds and tastes. Why? FOR OUR ENJOYMENT. If we reduce race to color blind (or the more socially correct statement equality) there is no enjoyment in the immense diversity that God gave us. And get this addendum that I'm sure will send people running away screaming and holding their ears, Sometimes we don't enjoy every sight. Sometimes we don't enjoy every smell. Sometimes we don't enjoy every taste. GASP! Did he just think that? How dare he! But wait, What I mean by this is that we don't ENJOY everything. This is not some blanket excuse to discriminate. This means that we don't like everything but all these things are diverse for a reason. Variety. God gave us variety and instead of trying to reduce the significance to a nonsense statement we ought to look past the coy catch phrases and look for the better answer.

And that's what's on my mind.