BANSKI

Can a person really wake up every morning with an honest intention of hurting other human beings?  What sort of reasoning can drive one to do such a thing?  To grow a desire of targeting their fellow neighbours and use words of hate against them?  You are unacceptable.  Your colour, your culture, your accent, your style; it’s all wrong.  The people you love, the things you do, the type of person you are; they don’t matter. 

What faculty in the human psyché causes such behaviour?  For someone to think that they are better than someone else?  How can one forget that we are all the same?  That we are all human?

I’ve forgotten many times in the past.  It’s not difficult to hate.  To hold grudges and seek vengeance.  To feel as if the whole world is against me.  It’s a straightforward path, unlike the winding path of love with all its forks and turns.  But oddly enough, many of us can’t see that the path of hate leads to nowhere. 

We can’t let anyone shut themselves off from the company they’ve been bestowed with.  To be left alone to rot on this Earth in solitude; no one deserves such a lonely death.  To truly experience the universe in all its brilliance, we must move past simply tolerating, and instead try to walk on the path of understanding and appreciating.

And to me this is life’s greatest challenge: to love and forgive both our friends and our enemies.  To love unconditionally.  To stop worrying about whether or not something is right or wrong, to go beyond what is good and evil, and simply act upon love.  To see that our differences don’t destroy the world, but make it more colourful.  To see that everything matters.  Whether you wear your jacket inside out, or have four legs, or love a girl named Kate who loves a boy named Karl who loves a girl named Kim who loves a boy named Ken… everyone matters.