An Idea on Difference

I spend a lot of time thinking about dreams, and about purpose, and deciphering the things that matter in life from the things that don't. Lately the painful truth of differences being a barrier in the human race, and the cause of division between us has been on my heart, and it reminded me of my dream. In November of 2015 I decided I wanted to declare and record on paper what exactly my "dream" in life was. This is what I wrote:

"My dream if I've ever known it:

To travel the world, not simply just to see creation, but to immerse in cultures, to indepthly study the souls of humanity. My dream is to use written words to unite humanity, to prove that at the core we are one and the same, to prove that we are a creation meant to live in unity with one another.

My dream is to assist in amplifying the message that love is the one true answer, now and forever."

I like reading this. Over and over again. It reminds me of who I am and it guides me.

I realize that behind this dream is a central idea.

The idea is that the world would look so drastically different if only the common perspective on difference itself was changed entirely.

If humanity chose to embrace the differences amongst us instead of seeing them as walls of division, I can't help but to believe that the world would look a lot more like it was intended to. If we only understood, that every human being was born into this world with the same exact knowledge, the same amount of confusion, the same lack of answers--If we only understood that every human being is struggling to make sense of life as much as the next, maybe then, we wouldn't be so quick to judge the individual conclusions of others. Maybe then, we would understand that we are each doing the best we can with what we've been given.

It's crazy to think about, really. How can we put walls up between people of different religions, races, and sexualities? How can we segregate ourselves with others who agree with our ideas and turn our backs to those with different opinions? How can we not be open minded to the minds of other human beings who are engineered and equally equipped to conclude this world and life just as much as ourselves? How is this logical at all?

We get angry, and violent, and insufferable. We allow our hearts to fill with the poison of hate, the exact opposite of what we are meant to fueled with. We allow ourselves to act barbarically and to fight, and to kill, the very source of ideas that simply contradict our own.

How can we not see our differences as intentional?

The design of diversity in humanity is something to be embraced. The design is deliberate and meant to unite us. Humans are like individual puzzle pieces, of all different shapes and colors, and if we would only turn ourselves to fit together, we could fill each others gaps, and be the beautiful Mosaic that we were created to be.

People need other people.

Jesus said we were made in his image, but this doesn't mean we all will look the same. This means we are made to love and to be loved, this means we are made to lead and to be led, this means we are made with individual purposes, each our own. We are each designed and engineered for the exact circumstances and places that our lives will take us.

How can we hate someone else for being engineered differently? How can we hate someone for having a different purpose?

Couldn't we instead learn from them, Couldn't we instead become better versions of ourselves by having a competent understanding of the variety in our own race?

Couldn't we instead be in admiration of all of the ways in which we are uniquely unalike?

I believe so.

And I believe in my dream.

A big dream fueled behind a tiny idea.