cynosure

I look at my body, stripped by myself, with my glasses off. The lines blur together in the mirror.

It doesn’t matter what or who I am, we’re all parts of the same great thing.

We are different but not separate.

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Do you know what’s the easiest way to accept or open your mind to or forgive someone you might not have wanted to before?

Talk to them. Reach out to them. Communicate. Or even just smile.

How can you love them or help them, reach out to them, do anything for them, or simply open your mind to their existence if you don’t, can’t even strike up a conversation? Talking with them makes us more able to relate to them, to be able to recognize that they, too, are just like us– humans who wish for and are entitled to happiness just as much as the next person. Let’s make the first step and simply say hi.

Instead of this distance. This vast and cold distance we put between ourselves and others that ultimately leads to even more isolation ignorance and prejudice instead of understanding and acceptance.

We were all strangers once. And then we got to know each other.

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tags: self-portrait, there's no such thing as strangers, we are not separate

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