SANIB-SINAG  2  March 14, 1998
 2.1    
Joint Enrichment 
from Shared Uniqueness
(Following up our call for comments and other ideas to enrich
our sharings and exchanges through the Sanib-Sinag friendly forum)
By Joydee Cahanding Robledo
Saniblakas Board Secretary and Executive Director
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"WE ALL HAVE something profound and valuable to share." That’s how we put it in our first folio of this Sanib-Sinag sharing forum. We should have added the word "unique" in describing what each one of us can share.

        Each person is unique as we all believe. But what makes us different from other persons? Is it the hairstyle? The shape of the face or the manner of speaking? Or maybe the kinds of dress that we use, or simply the texture of the skin? In as many ways that we know, we believe no matter how vague the bases are that everyone is individually unique.

        Touching base with our respective selves makes us recognize and appreciate more our own uniqueness as individual persons. Touching base with other humans maximizes and exalts our individual uniqueness and makes us jointly enriched. As part of our individuality, we relate with others to some degree of rarity.

        And so, as each joins others in one’s own unique way of doing things and sharing the beauty of exchanging lessons and experiences among ourselves, we altogether become jointly enriched. Our contributions are significantly added to the contributions of other people who also feel very much empowered in doing the things they love to share and in sharing the things they love to do.

        For example, if all who participate in decision-making come from a single field of experience, chances are that field would be narrow and the process would not be enriched by lessons from other fields of experience. It would be better therefore for decisions to be made jointly by people coming from various fields of experience from which to draw diverse ideas.

        It is not a question of who has contributed the most. It is a matter of having contributed a part of yourself, of your experiences, of your joys and laughters, your sentiments and sorrows, or just a wink of an eye, to touch others and be touched ourselves. How are we able to do that? I don’t know. Maybe, it’s a part of our being unique.

        As the variety of experiences becomes wider as each unique person reaches out, life, in its richness and wonders, is savored more. No matter where the angle of reason would come from, it is still our individual and joint efforts that make a difference. What we are and what we share become all the more significant as these create impact on people we meet. Believe it or not.

  
 
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