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Life does not care about race, creed, color, background, gender, or ethnicity… and neither does Death, for that matter. Life, itself—the actual condition of being alive— doesn’t care about material wealth, social status, or personal prestige; nor does it care about affiliations, political views, or sexual orientation. Life does not care about any of these things. Why should we? And, more importantly, why do we?
Life, itself, has no prejudices… and neither should we. Life—actually being alive—does not discriminate based on any set of criteria: not gender, not creed, not race, not color, not social class, and not financial worth. It does not distinguish between status, nor does it draw distinctions between personal views, party lines, individual agendas, and vested interests. No; all Life cares about is that a person has breath in his lungs and a heart full of beating blood. If that is the case, then that person is fully a human being, and therefore, worthy of the greatest degree of respect and dignity.
Life draws no distinctions, and neither should we. There are no levels of being a human being. There are no degrees to the human race. As long as a person is alive and breathing, he or she is a member of the human family. There are no valid sub-categories, just semantics that we come up with, either out of our own insecurities or simply as a way to pass the time. (What a shame.)
We are all members of the same group, the same classification, the same team, and the same family. And the sooner we realize this, the better off we will all be… and the better off our world will be as well.
Life is color-blind. Or, should I say, living is color-blind.
~ Shouldn’t we be too?
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