Gift wrapping and Martin Luther King

It's that time of year when people are going nuts buying gifts and trying to find innovative ways to wrap them. If you spend exact 3 seconds on google searching "gift wrapping ideas", you will come back thousands if not millions of ideas. There are some creative people in this world who have taken gift wrapping to a whole new level, making the wrapping itself a work of art.

And yet, the truth is, the wrapping is just that ... completely worthless it and of itself. Think about this for a second ... look at these gorgeously wrapped presents:

Imagine how excited you would feel to get such gorgeous presents on your birthday or a holiday or whatever. These are truly a work of art. A lot of time and effort went into the presentation. Now imagine that when you opened all your gorgeous presents, they were just empty boxes. Would you be happy?  Of course not. It doesn't matter how much time or effort goes into the presentation, the truth is that what really matters is what is INSIDE the present.

Then you have some people who are like me. Yes, I would love to spend the time and effort to make my gifts look as lovely as these do. The truth is, I just don't have the patience, or the supplies to do it. Recently, I had a friend who was under a lot of stress. I had made her a gift. I knew she "needed" a pick me up, and even though it wasn't the right time to give it to her, I wanted her to have it. However, I didn't have any of the necessary supplies to wrap it nicely. I wrapped it up in some nice tissue paper, and put inside a cute plastic bag. Nothing fancy. Just a regular shopping bag that I got in Israel that looked nice.  While the package didn't look like much, the wrapping really didn't matter in the least, because the gift inside is what really mattered.  (Yes, she loved it despite the crummy wrapping job.)

What am I getting at? Humans are the same way. The color of our skin, hair, eyes, if we have scars or look gorgeous ... these are all external things. They are the wrapping paper we wear. It doesn't matter if we have curly hair or straight hair, gorgeous perfect skin or are scarred with acne.  It doesn't matter if our physical body is considered perfect, or if we are disfigured or if we are over (or under) weight. What matters the most if the character we possess.  Are we kind? Are we friendly and happy? Do we think of others or are we selfish? Do we care about others feelings, or do we only care of what affects us? Character determines if you are pretty on inside. A person can be "ugly" on the outside, but if they have a lovely personality, people learn to look past the physical looks, because the beauty shines from the inside out. Queen Esther was chosen from all the girls to be the wife of King Achasvariosh, and yet, she had a green complexion. The commentaries say that her chein, her inner beauty, shined out, making her gorgeous on both the inside and the outside.

Dr. Martin Luther King said it the best in his famous speech, I have a Dream. "I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character. I have a dream today."  

Sadly, we are so far away from this. But not from the Right. It comes from the Left. It's the people who look at the Rockettes and complain that there are too many white women in the picture. https://www.weaselzippers.us/403578-the-rockettes-are-slammed-online-over-the-lack-of-diversity-in-dancers/ 

It's where a black can shame black men who voted for a white candidate. https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2018/11/wapo-author-shames-black-men-who-dared-to-vote-for-republicans-in-georgia/

I could link to a million articles, but time after time after time it's the same thing ... Leftists look at things through a black and white lens, rather than just looking at through a clear lens. You need to have more female CEOs and you need more diversity, even if it means not bringing in the best person for the job or school position. I don't know about you, but I for one, do NOT want my pilot (if I were to fly which I won't) or a doctor to be the one who got picked for their skin or body parts. I want the BEST person, whether that person is white, black, green, purple, male, or female. 

To sum things up, this story says it all:

In 1986, the Rebbe began conducting a weekly "receiving line." Each Sunday, the Rebbe would stand in a small room near his office as thousands of men, women and children filed past to see him and receive his blessing. Many used the opportunity to pose a question and receive a word of advice. And to each of them the Rebbe gave a dollar bill, appointing them as his personal agent (shaliach) to give it to the charity of their choice.

Why the dollar? The Rebbe explained his custom by quoting his father-in-law, Rabbi YosefYitzchak of Lubavitch, who would often say: "When two Jews meet, something good should result for a third." The Rebbe wished to elevate each of the thousands of encounters of the day to something more than a meeting of two individuals; he wanted that each should involve the performance of a mitzvah, particularly a mitzvah that also benefits another individual.

Again, a most amazing phenomenon was reported by all who came for "Sunday Dollars." The Rebbe, well into his ninth decade at the time, would stand for as long as eight hours without interruption. Yet in the few seconds that he or she was with the Rebbe, each visitor felt that the Rebbe was there only for them. It was as though he or she were the only visitor of the day.

Once, an elderly woman could not contain herself and burst out: "Rebbe, How do you do it? How is it that you do not tire?"

The Rebbe smiled and replied: "Every soul is a diamond. Can one grow tired of counting diamonds?"

Every single person is a diamond. If the Leftists will stop looking at the wrapping, and start looking inside, they may find that sparkle. But of course, they won't listen to me, because I'm a racists, Islamophobic, transphobic, homophobic, hating Conservative. Oh yeah, and I'm misogynistic and antisemitic too.