Nothing is just one thing.
Or, perhaps better, no thing is just one thing.
In order to develop understanding, there seems to be tendency within us to try to determine what something is. Often we do this with the assistance of determining what something isn’t.
Either way, we try understand it and then we try to maintain that understanding of it. Because it is more effort to reconsider things. But, herein lies the problem. No thing is just one thing. Each thing is actually many things.
A rock is...a rock. But, when put in a puddle, a rock is also a stepping stone. Or, it may also be a weapon, jewelry, an impediment, or....
So, it can be a misplaced notion to think of something as just one thing. In fact, in can be hurtful to do so. In fact, it could be really helpful to see something for more than just what it appears to be.
...really helpful, even, when considering people, who also aren't—despite our tendency to label them—just one thing.
