I am looking at myself in the mirror. I am asking myself...what if my life had been different, what if I was born in a different family or a different country...will be I be conditioned by them and fight for different purposes in life or would I still have the same basic character that sustains itself across any culture.
If that basic character is what will sustain and shape me, then why should my religion, citizenship or the color of my skin matter? I should be the same person regardless to where or which family I was born into. I should still enjoy a particular music, perhaps the language differs, my inclination to things should be the same, perhaps in a different make, my spirit to live would be similar, if not the same, however my situation may be. If my basic character is missing, would I not be another being fighting for a cause because of a certain conditioning in upbringing and to things that I am ignorant of. Wouldn't this path be misleading?
The question is then does it matter if I am a Christian, or a Hindu or a Muslim? Doesn't that seem like a membership into a big club called religion? Don't get me wrong...I believe in religions, but much more than that I believe that God exists and that he made us equal, for none of us posses an extra eye, or the nose is located somewhere else, nor the lips are used for something else beyond eating. Look around you, everybody have their eyes, ears, nose, lips, hands, feet, stomach in exactly the same place, nothing is out of place. I am sure if God practised religion, he would have not created us in equal characteristics. Even scientist had found that our DNA in genome sequencing are 99.9 % same. It is just the 0.01% that made the difference that contributes to the rest.
Why then with so much of all this similarities among us, why do we highlight the 0.01% differences? Why do we strive to be different, to stand out in a crowd of people and make everyone else less important? Why do we concentrate on acquiring fortune and fame, fight against our own and not think to leave some for those who truly need them? Aren't we brothers and sisters in a broad sense of the word itself? Do we only know how to destroy each other, despite having so much education, or sense or religion. Haven't we learnt enough to behave? Aren't storms, hurricanes floods or any other natural disasters the nature's way of telling us something...?
Due to our 0.09% indifferences, we have wars. They only help destroy our very own kind, mankind. There remains nothing kind about man anymore. Are we just many faces in a mirror, moved by things so trivial and fight for something that should not be there in the first place. Can we look at ourselves in the mirror, strip ourselves of our wordly positions, the status we are in and see beyond that? What do you think we see? Do you see just what you want or see the real you just staring back? Is the mirror you are seeing showing you something so untrue?
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Well said, When everyone realise that the world will look green without any red colour been spilled.