Could You Remain Unchanged?

 

Ponder the motif: "how do you want to spend your life". 

What if your life was a currency? 

What if your time on earth, or in space, or in the oceans, was a currency and you viewed your life and time alive as a literal investment into the earth and its inhabitants? 

Would you still go on as you do? 

Or would you invest your life in something else? 

What if you considered your life your only asset? 

Would you treat it differently? 

What if you viewed all of your money, and all of your wealth, as clusters of atoms without monetary value? 

What if you looked at your life and all others' lives as a single valuable entity? 

Can you look at all lives as equally valuable? 

Or will you immediately begin to classify a being's life based on a preconceived position, a social upbringing, or the orientation of the life of that person to yours? 

What if you recognized the worth in every single person on the street, and never closed yourself off to a single individual, embracing every single person for the miracle of life that they are? 

And what if by every single person, I actually meant every single person, and not just the ones you want, not just the ones that are easy to embrace? 

What if you didn't care about the differences in vocabulary between any of the many means of worship or in the many veins of spirituality and the beliefs of your own? 

What if you could see two opposing ideas as one? 

What if you saw science intermingled with spirituality? 

What if every single person stepped back from how they see themselves and looked at every other miracle of life for a single day and acknowledged every other existence as something amazing? 

Could you remain unchanged? 

Could you wake up the next morning and say, "I liked it better when I was me and everyone else was them"? "It's me verses them and that's the way it ought to be". 

Or could you see that you are me, and he is she, and we are they, and everything you like in you and everything you don't in someone else is part of one thing that comprises your being and the being that you help to comprise alongside every other life? 

Could you see the beauty of life itself? 

Would you have the courage to see that same beauty dwelling within yourself? 

Could you view your body as an energy encapsulating an energy that connects with every being? 

Could you view your life energy as a currency meant to be spent on something worth not only your while, but worth the while of all beings? 

Would you realize that it's limitless? 

Don't answer. Just think. Then do.

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