With Peace day just passing, it made me realize that there is not enough love in this world. Peace should not just be spread one day every year, it should be an everyday ritual. In a world where we are so divided, we need to realize that we are all human. We all breathe the same air and walk the same earth, so what is this divide that makes us all so alien to one another?
Whether you are white, black, Hispanic, a police officer, a janitor, or a teacher, you are human. And I just cannot understand why we don't all treat each other that way. I don't understand why love is becoming such a foreign concept to spread, but I don't think all hope is gone. Everyone needs to spread love rather than hate.
Which is why I support the free hugs project, because spreading love is such a critical thing. It breaks us down and humanizes people, people who are so different upon first glance but so the same on a much deeper level.
Being a white woman in this society, I will never claim that I know how it feels to be African American or to be a police officer or to be homeless because I don't know what it's like to wear those shoes. And I have no doubt in my mind that it is hard. And I don't claim that racism doesn't exist because it is clear that it does. And that's sad. Because we are all people.
Change comes slow, but to start the change we have to start changing our behavior. We have to look at all humans as humans. We have to spread kindness and not hate.
Start local, tell you friends you love them, give them a hug. Tell your family you miss them. Acknowledge the homeless man on the street corner, tell him hi, ask him how his day is. Give a stranger a compliment or sit with someone who looks like they are down.
There are so many ways to break the divide amongst us, we just have to stop being scared to make a change. So basically, spread love and peace. The vibes you give off will effect the people you encounter and it's contagious.
