Monday, December 14, 2015

Humans Pt 1



Humans. We. arehumans. We all are humans. We tend to forget the all piece more often than we would all like to admit. I can’t really blame us either… with the countless amount of isms running around classifying us in this category or that category. 
“I’m American, so that puts me in this category” 
“I’m a ‘senior’ that puts me in that category” 
“I’m nerdy, so that puts me in this category way over here” 
“I’m gay, I’m black. I’m a man. I’m this and I’m that… so that puts me here, and this puts me there and this is my life, my identity, my destiny…

The very words used to describe us have some how managed to divide us. When we let the isms of this world control even the smallest part of our lives, we are hindering the revolution. When we create these slogans branding a certain group of people worthy, in a hope to create unity and equality, we are deepening the separation between us. 

When we concentrate on the things that make us different, we are, by default, forgetting the very thing that is going to eradicate all this hate. We revert back to our fear of the absence of our basic human desiresBecause if they are different, then by logical deduction, we are different.And different adds a variable to our perspected pessimistic probability of never feeling connected, and our fears grow lines of separation disguised as fingerprints

Why? Why do we do this to ourselves? Limit ourselves, and our love? Do we forget there is strength in numbers? We all want the same things in life… to be loved, to be accepted, to be respected, to be trusted, be able to trust, to love, accept, and respect… right? We do understand that in order to get, we have to give. That is the only way it works. We reap what we sow; some call it karma. So if we want to be accepted; accept, everyone. Don’t want judgment; don’t pass it. Want to be loved? Love first. It comes back; it has to. For all of you secretly scoffing right now, it’s called the Law of Attraction. You get what you give. It is truly that simple.  

Remember, we are all fighting the same battles. I’ll say that again… we are all fighting the same battles. They just have individualized faces and personalized names. We create a separation between each other, built around the wrong ‘what if’s’ that are rooted in fear. “What if I can’t trust her? What if he doesn’t love me, respect me, understand me?” The irony in this is that we are all asking these same questions. 

When we finally realize that we all want the same love, the same respect, the same trust, and the same acceptance, we inherently have empathy. We know how much it hurts to lack the four fundamental human desires, so why try to rob someone else of the very things we crave the most? It seems counterproductive to me. 

Remember, it’s a “you get what you give” type of universe we live in. So why would we ever put out something we don’t want coming back to us? Send out the love you want to receive, accept people because you crave acceptance, respect people because you deserve the same type of respect, and be trustworthy because you are searching for someone you can trust. 

Be the person you want to find, and they’ll find you. The people who understand their roll in creating a better world aren’t attracted to the people who don’t. Be love. When we shift our perspective from different to similar, division converts into unity, war evolves into peace, and hatred transforms into love. 

And we finally realize that we are all simply human.