Wake Up

Although our world is a place of immense diversity, humanity has much in common, not only in our essential desires, but the similar hazards and difficulties we have faced. Certainly, what is so significant about our evolution as intricate beings is after all we have suffered, we are still making the same mistakes. We are fighting unnecessary wars, depriving children of education, and we are losing ourselves in illogical hatred toward one another.

Humanity prides itself in its uniqueness but when faced with a significant difference becomes hateful. By not taking the extra time to understand the beauty of variation, it is not hard to fall into fear and frustration. People fear what they don’t understand and often feel threatened by the success of another culture, religion or race. Ignorance is a nefarious weakness everyone is guilty of. The danger of ignorance is that it can grow from a passive irrelevance into a horribly complex war through a single generation.

Everywhere in the world there is pain; though our pains are unique and vary, it is essentially the same negative energy we all feel. Pain is something we all know, but we also know love and we also know compassion. When we come together as a compassionate global community we can bridge continents and cultures, close the gap of ignorance, and thrive on our similar longings of growth and human endeavor. By extending ourselves beyond traditional means, we may reach out to one another, not as an aid, but as an equal.

When social stigma is gone and the global community is relieved of intolerant hatred there will be an opening for immense opportunity where those who are passionate about social and political understanding will show the world that we all have something to offer one another.

It is never enough to tolerate difference; we must begin to understand, appreciate and respect each other so that we can break out of the vicious circle of hatred. The ideal state is not where we are all the same, but where together we can celebrate what makes each of us special.