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We are all so unique, yet not at all.


No, we will never be able to completely understand eachother’s thoughts. We are such unique beings, a result of our circumstances and more. Everything we have ever experienced, everything we have ever created has led us to this point.

Becoming stagnant is comfortable. It is safe. But I feel like we are on this earth to learn more and explore unexplored territories. There is so much we do not know. Of the world and of each other. There is so much each of us is capable of, on our own and through cooperation. Each person has so much to contribute to, we are all part of one giant body, contributing our strengths and giving our own insights from our analysis of the world and our circumstances.

Life is so beautiful. There is ofcourse things that make it seem otherwise in the moment. Things that you may view as bad may occur to you in your life. But the beauty within that, is that this response is so flexible. We humans are able to twist our minds and play around with it through our sense of self-awareness. We can completely change and manipulate our response to events, we are able to stand back and look at the broader picture if we just put our headspace in the right frequency. Each individual may be going on our own paths, our own wave. But these waves interweave, some can cancel eachother out, others can amplify those waves. We can create beautiful things, forms of expression, evidence of an attempt to understand. We can share these thoughts in various forms, we can bounce off of each other’s journey like atoms floating through the air, rapidly in waves of change. Such impacts may not always be obvious. It can be a kind word, or a work of graffiti. It can be through an act of service, or through a brief conversation. It can be as little as a question spoken out loud, or as big as political movements. No matter what, we matter so much to this huge web of evolution and no being is more important than the other. We are all a part of it.

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