Eggs-actly!!
I have been going through a financially difficult time lately. This is due in part to a medical condition and in part the recession. Last week a friend I used to work with came by to take a letter to mail for me as I was having a bad day physically and couldn’t get out. When he came he brought me some tomatoes and eggs from his father’s farm. He commented that the eggs were colorful. I kind of chuckled and mentioned that they were all still eggs. I couldn’t get this thought out of my head. Seems when I am feeling my worst, my tornadoes really start to twist and turn the words around in my head. I thought about how some folks say that brown eggs are the best and others aver it is the white eggs you should choose. I have never tasted a difference in either. After I was feeling better, I took the carton of eggs from the refrigerator and just looked at them. There they sat, ten eggs of various shades of white and brown. there was even one that was a kind of rusty color. It was almost as if the hens which laid the eggs wanted to celebrate the Christian holiday of Easter.
My thoughts weren’t just about the eggs as eggs. I kept thinking how I said that eggs were all the same no matter the color. This is like people. No matter the color of your skin, eyes and hair, every human being is the same. I recall the old movie Tammy And The Bachelor. During the course of the movie, the uneducated swamp girl, Tammy makes a startling statement about war. In essence she said that if people would remember that under all the armor and clothing there is nothing but flesh and blood, perhaps there would be few wars. Oh, the innocence.
Those who have followed my blog for any length of time have already figured where I am going. My favorite topic to write about in here – PEACE. Just like those eggs in my refrigerator, people are the same. We may look different on the outside, but inside we are flesh, blood and bones. The shell may be different sizes or colors or perhaps shapes slightly off; but inside there is a yolk and the whites.
When we focus on the differences we have there is strife and war. It will only be when we focus on what we have in common (i.e.: being human beings for one) that we can truly accept others and bring about peace in the world. Greet people without noticing what is on the outside. Nearly three years ago, to escape the illness that has invaded my body, I entered Second Life (I have a blog just about that and have mentioned it before). I began getting to know people where all I could see of them was their avatar representative. After a while I was getting to know them not as their Second Life persona, but who they are in the real world. It hit me one day that had I been walking down the road in the real world and passed most of these people, at the most I would have just given them a glance, but we would never have become friends. I used to think I was not a prejudice kind of person, that I was very accepting. I learned how wrong I was. I can now boast that I have friends from all walks of life, skin colors, religions, races, nationalities, etc. I got to know them as people keeping in mind that there was a human being on the other side of the computer, not just a bunch of pixels.
To the rest of the world I offer this advice – Put your blinders on and meet some eggs.
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