Wrong, says Michael, age 7. God made us different from one another so “He wouldn’t be bored.” Or, to put it another way, “God likes to see different faces,” says Kallan, 7.
“The world would be so plain if everyone was the same,” says Amanda, 10. In fact, “it would be a world full of mirrors,” where “Mom might take home the wrong kid,” say Mallory, 11, and Ashley, 6.
Being different from each other is “like our ID” so “we won’t get lost,” say Alex, 8, and Kristin, 6.
OK, so God spared moms the confusion of trying to distinguish between identical kids, except in the case of twins. But what if we all wanted to do the same kind of work? “We have to have people who want to do all sorts of things and work at different jobs,” says Leslie, 12. “Little odd jobs are very important.”
Does that include emptying the trash and making your bed? If everyone were the same, “everyone would have the same habits, and it’d be miserable,” says Alex, 10.
Can you imagine a world where everyone was a newspaper columnist? There would be no editors! Someone once ...
