Humanity has done many stupid things by pressures to follow the group, every one of us is unique and in the name of being similar we are suffocating that which makes us special, i think its great that were a social species, where are social instincts go askew is when we think to be sociable we should be the same... how boring and broken. Rather are sociability is meant to be a symphony where are differences are uniqueness's are highlighted and interact to build a musical harmony. Imagine a symphony of all unique instruments all trying to be a trombone, following its every note and trying to be the same length of note, the same tone, same in every way it can "ridged" "caged"... that is a shit piece of music... each one has a special part to sing, a soul, a sound, a melody that is different yet fits in to create a master piece... are social pressures are all wrong, we need to embrace the difference, the unique, yet interact, dance with each other and work together to create beauty
MUCH LOVE ALL... BE YOU your difference is what makes you most special!!! its time to create musical mastery in living life!!!
i hear that, brother. nothing more beautiful in all of creation than that. like at the end of How the Grinch Stole Christmas when all of the whos starting singing together despite the destruction and chaos which had recently rained down upon their little ritual/routine. keep your chin up! all these silly "best laid plans" will be as so many fly farts in hurricane-force winds. ;)
Hi Thomas-
I agree very much - I've always had a hard time understanding what people mean when they talk about unity because I value diversity so much..."United we all go in the wrong direction" is a bumper sticker I always wanted to have in response to "United we Stand".
Maybe what people mean when they talk about wishing for unity is just that we all respect each other as if they were ourselves. To me this is something different than unity though.
Starmonkey lol :)
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Wendy thanks one thing i like to do is explain what i mean about a word because the ways to interpret them are infinite.
So what do i think unity is. I guess first i think it is something that is truly inescapable... when i look at the human body it is a showcasing of vast unity, each cell is still individuated yet connected... are breath is the exhalation of plants are exhalation is the breath/food to plants... the water in my body is never constant it flows and connects outward, it is highly likely we have share the same water molecules hundreds "likely more" of times and these were also shared by the dinosaurs and so on, the entire cosmos is a display of vast interconnectedness to me that's unity.
The form I seek to cultivate in myself is symbiotic empowering unity :) where I wish to empower myself on and on with the intention of finding and fostering symbiotic interconnections, for me being the same is weak un-empowered form of unity :) I think nature keeps telling us this, diversity is what truly creates its strength and flexibility = stability, a mono culture crop left to its own devices crumbles quickly a forest on its own devices thrives...
Yes to each of us being a unique and beautiful instrument in the cosmic symphony of life!