When I was on the little jazz flight last Friday (from Regina to Calgary), there was a tall , huge and masculine man sitting beside. His long air and tattoo on his arm could tell me who was he. He might be someone with "background" or he might be someone has a "special" job or he might be a biker who rides on those noisy motorcycles around the city. My eyes did not want to have any eye contact with ...just in case... After the flight attendant served us the drink, he pulled out a book from his backpack. I did not pay attention to what kind of book he was reading. I guessed... it should be a heavy metal rock music book or something related to motorcycle or WWF.
When the flight almost arrived Calgary, I took a peek at the window (he was sitting on the window seat) to see how did Calgary look like. Then I found out that he was reading a book which is called "An empowering vision of the gospel -Water into wine". Suddenly... I had a weired feeling within my heart. Most of the time we tend to look at the outside circumstance to judge as something or someone but does it fair ?
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Yes, it's so easy to judge based on the outside. It's so hard to take away prejudice.
Quite a few years ago, my best friend and I came to visit Vancouver from Calgary. We wanted to go to the restaurants in Chinatown because there weren't a lot of good ones in Calgary. We didn't know the place very much and we were wandering around in chinatown. We got to some areas where there were some people yelling on the streets and we didn't really know what was happening. We just kept on walking ahead and were about to cross the street when a man who looked like a drunk homeless person approached us. We were a little afraid at first because we were both girls and thought the guy might want money from us. But then, he just told us to turn around as it was dangerous ahead, and then he left. I guessed he must have known that we were tourists from the way we dressed and acted.
When I reflected upon it, I wonder if I would be concerned enough like him, to tell a strange to walk away for safety.
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