celebrate our differences, radical switch from pride in our similarities

somewhere over time, people began to gather around similarities and choices. different communities and cultures developed. we started to celebrate the things that made us different than other communities and cultures.

as the pace of interactions in life have gotten exponentially faster (size of populations, exposure to an ever growing number of cultures, sub-cultures, and sub-sub-cultures, each proud in their differences from you), the time we experience this "different" person is getting shorter and shorter. too much going on. too many things to experience. you need to make more & more choices; yes/no, 0/1, check/uncheck

through time, a judgment was made because pledged solidarity to list of similarities with narrow range of differences was broken. communities had been ignorant to the differences (large & small). but those differences were forming their own association of a similar set of choices.

to label someone, put them in a box (a community), is a judgment, and ironically not building community. everyone is in my community. i will hardly experience 1/100,000,000 of the people in my community, but they're still there. to walk past someone on the street is to be in community with that being. you have to interact enough to at least not run into on another.

there is no right choice or wrong choice. judge not today.
if that's too big of a piece to chew on, there is only a set of choice for you. everyone else is on their own journey. the questions in their check list are different, even if just slightly, from your's.

celebrate our differences is a radical switch from pride in our similarities.