RECOGNIZE PEOPLE WHO ARE BY YOUR SIDE
All people deserve recognition. Not recognition of awards or trophies but recognition related to the person as an individual just like you and me.
The word “recognise” is just knowing again and again, knowing being can be defined by “Causing something to be inserted into someone’s knowledge (memory)” or even “Becoming aware of”. In other words, recognition comes from the constant sense of being present and knowing that people are aware, at the very least, of your existence.
This is not the same thing as being egocentric, i.e. thinking that everything and everyone must revolve around a certain person and that if it is not OK for us, it is not OK for anyone else. Recognition is what provides our sense of belonging, our identity and our sense of security. Recognition, therefore, is what makes us visible in the eyes of others while self-centredness makes us visible in our own eyes.
In a recent video, I saw the following sentence: Why do I have to constitute the meaning of the other? Why is he something for me? So let’s try to invert these positions: Why not understand that it is the other who constitutes me as myself? From this point of view, I would owe my own existence to the other. This is essential for us to understand the question of identity and recognition, because from the moment that I recognise the individuality and subjectivity of the other, I am recognising myself as an individual.
This does not mean living for the other and thinking about things from the other’s perspective, but thinking that the other is as valid as we are. The will of the other is as important as our own will.
So let us think more together, in a collective perspective rather than just thinking about what will benefit us without thinking about the impact these actions will have on other lives.
