Who or what is behind the glasses that allow these eyes to write and read these bits of light? Is it a person, a soul, or a quark of stray energy left over from creating the universe billions of years ago? Am I so different from you, your energy, your soul? Or are we all a piece of one whole?
I recently celebrated the 90th birthday of my mother with sisters, friends and extended family. It was a wonderful event at which we all came together to joyfully delight in life. There were several people there who I had not seen since leaving home for the last time 40 years ago! Some I knew very well and others not at all. With some, were it not for being related, I would have no connection at all with them. With one however, it was as if our relationship had never suffered this 40 year gap! We leapt right back into conversation as if we lived right next door. All of the experiences of a lifetime were as if they'd never happened and we were just as if we were kids again. Wow!
I think there are too many of us here on earth using up the few precious resources now left at a frightening pace without regard to others. There are too many of us running and stumbling through life oblivious to the effect we are having on earth and each other or the power we possess to do something about the wrongs we see and care about.
There are too many of us here now and too few really good friends.