I often wonder what people are really thinking about as they experience life. Life itself is so different depending on your birthplace and cultural upbringing. The expanse of differences is so vast, unless you could experience firsthand every culture of the world your comprehension would be tainted. You would have no idea about the day-to-day life of most cultures. But what’s interesting about life is though we are so different as it relates to culture, we are likeminded, or kindred when it comes to fear, temptations, love, loneliness, and happiness. We all experience some forms of success and failure, stress, sickness, times of rejoicing, times of worry, and eventually death. I would think, most of us question our existence, the fairness of life, and our purpose. With that being said, you would think consideration for one another would supersede all else, but it doesn’t. We put our cultural differences above our kindred likenesses. Our own selfishness about selflessness.
There are, however, people life Oskar Schindler, a businessman who focused on profits above others. He engaged in the horrific treatment of others for the sake of said profits, but what he witnessed changed his priorities from profit to people. He spent his entire fortune safeguarding lives, being transformed from selfishness to a life of selflessness. His revelation of the mankind’s kindred likeness changed him forever.
Maybe it’s time we all shifted our priorities of self to that of selflessness, realizing our kindred likenesses above our cultural differences.
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