Connected

I was watching a documentary about a famous person who went on a personal journey and traveled to the Amazon jungle.  During the course of his trip he met people that had no idea who he was and as a result he felt liberated from living in the world of celebrity.  In a poignant moment towards the end of his travels he meets some indigenous people in the heart of the jungle and realizes that although they are extremely different, they have similar desires for living a comfortable life.  The people spoke about their families and friends as the basis for their existence.  They did not identify work or any other type of status as what defined them, in the end it was all the simple everyday things that made their lives fulfilled.  This well made point made me think about how we are connected to the rest of the world no matter what your stage in life in life is.   There is also some vast commonality to most of us, as being human transcends all cultures, religions or languages.  If you think about how diverse our planet is and you would find that it is all vast and hard to wrap your brain around all of it.  Yet, the connection that we have to all human beings binds us with a fine thread that is woven through this great collage of individuals. This is why it is difficult to understand that we still have wars and various types of social injustice through out the world that can illustrate our poor skills in overcoming what should have been conquered long ago.  Ideally we should live in a world that celebrates the many differences among all people and that we would be more advanced as a result of this great diversity.  Although there is still a long road ahead as we try to proceed towards this ultimate goal of being able to get along with everybody who is different from us, we must persist in our goal to help get us all there.  It is through the course of our individual journeys which make us realize how we are more closely we are linked to our brothers and sisters around the globe.  We all experience the same emotions and we crave the simple things related to finding inner peace, love, harmony and being compassionate.  So we must remember that at our core we our bound to others via the human existence, which then provides us with a shorter distance between those that we think are so different from us.  Although we cannot erase the destructiveness of some of our history, we can all choose to eliminate any further discourse that would be created by us making poor decisions when we let our ego's speak instead of our hearts.