On Unity
On November 4th, Keith Burtis tagged me on his post String Together Unity. Since then, I’ve told him several times that I would be responding to his call. And I have; it just took me almost 30 days.
The call is to offer my thoughts on “why we should look at life as one, rather than life as fragments scattered across the universe”. I believe the answer is simple. We are one. We’ve all evolved from the same explosion. The same energy created the universe, put the sun and planets into orbit, established the earth and sky, made water, organized the weather, sprouted plants and put heartbeats, thoughts and emotions into animals.
On a day to day basis, we tend to take this unity — this connectedness — for granted. It takes people like Barak Obama (the catalyst for Keith’s post) to inspire us to act together for positive results, the kind of results we haven’t seen for many years. What makes people like Obama so important is that they approach their work and their life with the goal of ensuring that everyone wins.
Sadly, it also takes people that start wars and create conflict to remind us of our connectedness. They believe in exclusive unity for the privileged; the kind of unity that comes at someone else’s expense.
The trick is to decide which way better serves the lot of us for our short time on this planet.
Photo: Mobius Tattoo by Spacemanbob.
