A World of Understanding

I'm Back! So sorry to keep you waiting for yesterday's post, but blogspot was 'read-only' for about 24 hours due to a technical difficulties.

I don’t want you to think that recycling is the only ‘g’ thang I do.
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Today, I had a conversation with a couple women from Saudi Arabia. These women were in full head-to-toe garb, including the face covering, and they were wonderful people! In a room where it was just us women, they were able to remove their face coverings and reveal their beautiful faces and happy smiles. We talked about the differences in American and Arabic lifestyles. We talked about their husbands and my boyfriend. We talked about the roles of women in both societies. It was a fun conversation born out of pure curiosity without judgment or proselytizing.

It is important to have these types of conversations with people of races, backgrounds, values, and faiths different from your own, and it makes the world a better place. Through these conversations people can begin to see that other people are, in fact, people. No better or worse than you or anyone else. People laugh. People cry. People fume. People love. People want to be happy. Regardless of our differences, people have being human in common.

What would happen if we spoke with our enemies before labeling them as such? I once heard the director of a play say, “Even the bad guy thinks he’s the protagonist.”

How does a conversation make the world a better place? Conversations breed understanding. Understanding is the foundation of compassion, and compassion is the foundation of peace.