So I was thinking about humanity today. Well not really humanity, but about myself. But after the thought I realized that I was thinking about humanity. It occurred to me, and I've had this thought before, that all of us has the potential to be what anyone else is. I was thinking, "What stopped me from being what Hitler was?" What has? What emotions did he have that I don't? What thoughts did he have that I couldn't? We all, after all, have those little dark thoughts that flick across the imagination. We would never admit to them. But we have them.
So what is it that makes us different. Its not even the experiences we've had. Because though my experience may be completely different then someone else's; they can stimulate the same thoughts and emotions. It comes down, I think, to how we deal with our situations that make us different. It comes down to whom we blame and how we fix our problems.
I've come to believe that we all have the potential to be anyone else on the planet. We all share from the same pool of emotions. What can you feel that I can't? I hate, you hate. I love, you love. I'm jealous, you're jealous. I pity, you pity. And so on and so on. What are you that I'm not? What are you that I can't be, given the same circumstances? I think that humanity as a whole is really just one person. And that each individual is just a different side of that person. It's like how different friends bring out different sides of who you are. You're serious with one, wild with another. Different events in life bring out different sides of humanity. We are one and not at the same time. Think about that the next time you decide to judge another. Remember that that could be you, were you in their shoes.
Sam
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