You're probably just like me, but with less tattoos

Yesterday was a the first day of a huge job for Two Awesome Moms.  The client is fabulous.  She's been through a lot and she's very open about it all.  She's not pretentious at all, she just is....you know?  Exists like the rest of us.  Openly trying to get by in life and make the most of her days.

While going through her home to begin the sorting and organizing and cleaning, memories came flooding out.  Some good, some not so great, but all of them made her who she is today.  Of course when other people around us get nostalgic and emotional, we tend to follow suit.  Her memories and talk of familial ties made me realize even more that we're ALL just alike.  Everyone has a story.  

This realization made me wonder, even more than I usually do, why we don't peacefully coexist with one another.  Why do we mistreat one another?  Why do we judge one another to the point of persecution?  Why do we hate things we don't understand?  Why aren't we all curious to find the "why behind the what?" And if we do understand things but don't agree or don't accept, why not just move on and ignore those things?  Instead, so many of us are guilty of being hateful and cruel to people who don't operate by our standards or follow our life rules.  How come we don't understand what we're doing to one another with our hateful misunderstanding of others?  Don't we realize that our hatred and misunderstanding typically fuels the things we hate in others? The rebellious among us, will fight you tooth and nail to make you see just because we're different looking or different acting, in the end......we're all the same.  There's really no need to hurt one another.  Especially when you accept the fact that you just never know when you might need someone to help you pick up the pieces of your story and put them back together.  We're all just one tragedy away from that reality.

Make peace with someone today.  You'll never regret it.

<3 Happy Sunday!