Choose what you want
PREFERENCE IS NOT PARTIALITY
To choose one path, one passion, one person, does not translate to you dismissing every other options as lesser; having a favourite is not to declare war on the rest of the world, or discard everything or everyone else. Preferring something over others does not mean you are choosing the best, it just means you understand their flaws, their shortcomings, and their mistakes, but still choose to see the magnificence and the fragrance in them.
Preference is clarity, not blindness; it is the conscious choice to say, “This is what I want, irrespective of how good other choices are.” Your choices are your own responsibilities; you choose the challenges you want to face; you choose the friendships that move you forward, appreciate you, strengthen you, and help you grow; you choose the quiet morning over the noisy night, not out of prejudice, but out of self-knowledge.
Partiality is a closed door, it secludes, segregates, alienates, and lock out the light, creating darkness, but preference opens the window for light to come in. Do not apologize for showing what you love; do not let the fear of being seen as unfair, or narrow. Your preferences are the compass of your character, they point you toward your growth, your joy, and your purpose, to deny them is to lose your authenticity to pleasing everyone, doing a disservice to yourself.
Build the courage to go for your preferences; to know what stirs your heart is not an act of rejection, but an act of definition, and acceptance. It is how you draw the map of your own humanity, one true, authentic choice at a time. Your preference is your signature, write it boldly, without apology, across the life you are building. The world does not need more people who like a bit of everything, it needs people who love a few things with their whole heart, and in doing so, learn how to honour everything else.
To a better you, Kamikun John.
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