The world is full of people trying to tear each other apart.
Much of what we attack in other people is really our own unexamined pain. We criticize what we recognize, often unwillingly, in ourselves. No one is more threatened by another person’s authenticity than someone who has been taught to repress their own.
When we fail to recognize that we are all part of the same web of humanity, the harm we project outward becomes a kind of boomerang aimed, ultimately, at our own most vulnerable places.
I imagine a world where people are free from the pain that makes them defensive, like trapped animals snarling at offered help. A world where every human being is valued simply because they exist.
I want to recognize the unique expression of humanity that exists in each person, and to have my own recognized in return. I want to feel an interconnectedness where similarities strengthen one another and differences find balance rather than conflict. To love what makes you uniquely you, while remembering that we are the same.
We are human beings. And the nature of a being is not to prove itself, but to be.