Tag: human race

Born the same

Posted on by philipdodson

Every single one of the over 7 billion of us on this planet were born the same, an equal human being.

Then our environment and circumstances will shape us.

Before hating, before judging, before killing, before repressing, before enslaving, before acting against another, remember we are all the same human race.

Get out from behind the keyboard, the curtains, shut off the voice of hate from the media, get out your house and meet, embrace and get close to other humans, especially the ones we’ve judged.

Then try to hate up close or instead choose to empathise and understand we all started in the same place.

Perhaps, we don’t need more missiles we need to reach out and embrace each other and understand our differences.

Change your lens

Posted on by philipdodson

Often we do not listen, we hear, but do not listen. That is because we are fearful of being wrong with our own views, or scared that the polarised camp we are in may well be wrong too.

Very few things are so simple as to be a case of one option or the other and that is what we are frightened of, so it is easier to shut down, close off, hide, pretend there is no other view.

Take a moment to choose to embrace the opposite view more than the one you currently believe, walk a mile in the other sides shoes, put on their lens for a day. Change the lens and see another view and look without evaluation or judgement, just observe.

Maybe, just maybe, we would be able to come together as a human race instead of being hatefully apart.