Saturday June 20, 2020 While moving through the day and in daily interactions with people I noticed something. When I saw another person I judged them. I judged them on whether they wore a mask or not. And I imagine they were judging me. Whichever camp you fall in the other party is watching you and most likely making an assumption of your character, political viewpoint and general attitude about the world and everyone living in it. I found it to be pitiful. I found myself to be pitiful. I found out we as humans are designed to look at people who are different from us and judge them or worse question them or even worse persecute them. We are all of the great unwashed. We are all sinners. We are all with faults. If only we could see the true human in all of us. And see the spirit of the human that is in us; imperfect. Many of us can accept our own shortcomings and forgive ourselves our trespasses, but we cannot see others in the same way. Why? Why must we look at people and name them black, Republican, special, poor, overweight, stupid, and tell them they are wrong for not thinking, acting or looking like us.
If only all of us would just accept each other as people, humans with hearts that break and minds that react with feelings. Be open to all kinds of people regardless of whether or not they look like us or believe like us or live like us. We share the world and the world accepts us. Why can we not see the reality of this pandemic. It judges no one. It takes the lives of breathing people and turns them into ravaged souls that cry and gasp for air. We as humans could learn from this, but we won't. There was a pandemic in 1918 that took millions of lives and what did we learn from that? Did we learn to treat people the same? Did we learn to accept all humankind regardless of skin tone, language spoken or IQ? No we continued in the way we always have and here we are 102 years later. Different pandemic same people dying and those that survive will not be changed. Heavy thoughts tonight. I will end with a quote from Ralph Waldo Emerson to ponder " We believe in ourselves as we do not believe in others. We permit all things to ourselves and that which we call sin in others is experiment for us."
The truth is we are experimenting with life and we all deserve the same opportunities to feel alive and feel success and know joy and live free from fear or ridicule. Let us experiment with loving ourselves and others as equals. If you advocate for all humans you too will be human and be advocated for.
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