However, there is something to be said for being with someone who's different in certain ways too.
I welcome someone's being "different".
Of course we cannot lose sight of the basic fact that these innocent people were targeted because they were, at least in someone's view, "different".
"Someone at 25 saying, 'I've hated math my whole life,' that's different from someone who's 45 saying the same thing," says John Fulmer, Princeton Review's content director for the GMAT, which most business programs use as part of their selection criteria.
We accept theologically that there will always be multiple ways in which each of us relate to, commune with and understand God, and that even if someone's way is different from ours, we must not only tolerate such differences, but respect them.
It's different to reading someone's diary as a diary is kept for oneself.
"That's different from someone who's just had a bad day or month or year".
"Our British story is different, we're first-generation immigrant children and that's different from someone who's been here 250 years.
"Just cause you're a guy it doesn't mean you're going to go into a meeting and feel really comfortable giving your opinion even though it's different from someone else's opinion".
Sometimes even the notion that someone's attempting something different is enough to furrow the critics' brows.
