Today's "thought for the day" is from Maya Angelou:
We are more alike, my friends,
than we are unalike...
Let us keep this in mind as we look around and see folks who are different from us. Ben Carson once noted that when he did surgery he noticed how we are all very similar as humans - because you see - when he made incisions into the skin to operate - our insides are all the same. Yes, we are all more alike than unalike - :)
That is something to think about - and here is the entire Maya Angelou poem:
Human Family
I
note the obvious differences
in
the human family.
Some
of us are serious,
some
thrive on comedy.
Some
declare their lives are lived
as
true profundity,
and
others claim they really live
the
real reality.
The
variety of our skin tones
can
confuse, bemuse, delight,
brown
and pink and beige and purple,
tan
and blue and white.
I've
sailed upon the seven seas
and
stopped in every land,
I've
seen the wonders of the world
not
yet one common man.
I
know ten thousand women
called
Jane and Mary Jane,
but
I've not seen any two
who
really were the same.
Mirror
twins are different
although
their features jibe,
and
lovers think quite different thoughts
while
lying side by side.
We
love and lose in China,
we
weep on England's moors,
and
laugh and moan in Guinea,
and
thrive on Spanish shores.
We
seek success in Finland,
are
born and die in Maine.
In
minor ways we differ,
in
major we're the same.
I
note the obvious differences
between
each sort and type,
but
we are more alike, my friends,
than
we are unalike.
We
are more alike, my friends,
than
we are unalike.
We
are more alike, my friends,
than
we are unalike