The Illusion of Sameness: What The Giver Still Teaches Us About Awareness and Change

After reading the book, I watched the movie.

In The Giver by Lois Lowry, an entire society sacrifices difference in the name of peace.

They call it sameness — a world without envy, greed, anger, or hatred.

No pain.

No conflict.

No choice.

On the surface, it sounds like paradise.

But in exchange for safety, they gave up freedom.

In exchange for control, they lost colour, music, and emotion.

And with that, they lost their humanity.

The story reveals something we all feel, deep down: you can’t control nature.

You can only pretend for so long.

History reminds us of this again and again.

Empires fall when they try to silence voices.

Revolutions begin from small cracks in certainty.

A single act of awareness can shift generations.

Like an avalanche, change rarely starts massive — it begins as a rumble, a whisper, a small crack in what “was.”

Once awareness begins, it spreads.

Once you see what’s been hidden, you can’t unsee it.

Once you experience freedom, you can’t go back to numb safety.

That’s why The Giver still feels so relevant.

It’s not just about a fictional community — it’s about us.

We can try to bend nature, to sanitize emotion, to flatten difference.

But life has a way of reminding us that evolution cannot be paused.

So, what’s next for us?

Do we choose to grow — to see, to feel, to risk being fully alive?

Or

... Do we hide behind comfort, and call it peace?