Have you ever had a really curious experience in a hotel?

One evening I went to the hotel after a hard day. 

While walking about 4 km, grateful for my headphones, which relieve me of loneliness, I imagined myself making myself comfortable and immersing myself in one of my favorite books “The Art of the Good Life”. 

After the successful check-in and now imagine my condition with the book in my hand even more concrete, I ran up the stairs to the room intended for me.

Slightly excited, I wondered if my chip would open the door with the first try.

Yes, I was successful and opened the door. While I discovered the window and the great view over the city, I noticed something immediately:

Someone was in bed and sleeping.

I only recognized feet, the location is very relaxed.

Out of sheer awe of invading someone’s privacy, I immediately closed the door again. 

I immediately looked for the stairs to the reception again. 

I thought this was funny and was glad that the person was “just sleeping”.

At the same time, I wondered what had happened to make it happen.

The person at the front desk didn’t find this as funny as I did.

She scolded her colleagues loudly. I also found watching her amusing, so I was even less upset as a customer.

Why should I? No one was injured, the consequences were negligible.

I finally had something exciting today to talk about.

When I got a new, empty room just for me, I called my husband. He said, “I’ve never experienced that or heard of it.”

He laughed, as I did, about this incident and went on to say:

“Imagine you’re already asleep and then a person comes into your room at night.”

Diversity has many aspects.

Although we mostly address “visual” diversity, I find the way we perceive, accept, process a situation, or how we deal with curious events even more exciting and diverse.

That says a lot about us. How quickly does diversity, something that has never been experienced before, a different approach, throw me out of the concept? 

Are the consequences bad, negligible or even enriching?

In addition, this event helped me to internalize that I share beds, plates, glasses, rooms with all the people I may not like – even if not at the same time. This realization is sobering.

So why not work on my acceptance?