We are one because we are different and we are one because we are one

A friend on Facebook, Hallelujah Lulie, posted “I am therefore I am not you.’ And I commented

     ‘You are therefore everyone is” and also added Hemingway’s “The public is only a multiplied me’’

Hallelujah’s reason for saying that might be different. But there is always this clash of thoughts between those who say that everyone, every religion, and every society is different and therefore cannot be regarded as one and those who say that these differences can be regarded as a blessing and we should have unity in diversity. And finally, there are those who say that we are one and we all belong together.

Let me consider the first two. Whether we say we need diversity in unity or unity in unity, all that we are looking for in unity.  So, let us not place our sticks of criticism and hatred on each other’s back. It is unity that we need, but all people can’t have a similar opinion on what unity is.

Let us remember this; we are one at least in one thing, and that is by the fact WE ALL ARE DIFFERENT. But of course there are many more things we share. I even believe that ‘what unifies us outruns ‘what separates us.’  We all belong together!