Ask Mammy

We're all the same!

June 13, 2007

Think about all the people in your life.

Think about the people closest to you - your partner, children, family and friends.

Think about the people you work with - the ones who bring a smile to your face and the ones who make you scowl!

Think about all the people you encounter every day but will probably never get to know - people you pass on the street, people in cars going the opposite direction, people going up the escalator as you are going down.

Each of us is unique.

We're different sizes and shapes and races and creeds and colours and ages and genders.

We all have our own exclusive fingerprints and DNA structure.

We all have different talents and abilities and experiences and memories and opinions and dreams and aspirations and hopes and fears- but yet, we are all basically the same.

We all need to eat.

We all need to sleep.

We all need a place to live.

We all need to make a contribution and feel needed.

And, most importantly, we all need to love and be loved.

So fundamentally, where it matters most, every person in this world is just like you!

When we can learn to recognise and to respond to our similarities rather than our differences, the world will be a much nicer place!