09/20/2026
Two eggs from two different chickens—but eggs nonetheless.
Both provide protein and fat. Both can nourish us, enhance a recipe, bind ingredients together, or simply be enjoyed on their own. Depending on how they are prepared, they can even take on entirely different forms. Some have strong shells; others are more delicate.
Eggs may look different on the outside. One may be white, another brown, green, or even blue. Yet beneath the shell, they share the same basic structure.
We may have preferences. We might say the brown egg tastes better than the white one, or assume the green egg is somehow superior. But if we have never tasted the blue egg, how can we fairly say the green one is better?
Difference does not mean inferiority or superiority. It simply means difference.
And that brings us to a bigger question:
If we can so easily understand this about eggs, why is it sometimes so difficult to understand it about people?
We may look different on the outside. We may come from different places, have different experiences, strengths, personalities, and ways of seeing the world. Some of us are resilient; some are more delicate. But underneath those differences, we share something much more fundamental:
We are all human.
Perhaps, like the eggs, we should spend less time judging the shell—and more time understanding what is inside.
