Howdy stranger. Even if you are a regular reader of this blog, chances are I’ve never met you. Even so, there are things that I know about you with complete certainty.
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You have value. (We all do.)
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You are capable of learning new things. (And there’s so much to choose from!)
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You are capable of change (even if you don’t enjoy it).
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You know things that I do not. (We could learn from each other.)
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You have interesting stories to tell (even if you may not be good at telling them).
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There’s more to you than meets the eye. (We’re all complex.)
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You are a survivor, by virtue of the fact that you are right here, right now. (Yay!)
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You are curious, or you wouldn’t be reading. (You can’t deny it.)
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We have something in common. (Here we are, after all.)
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There’s no one else exactly like you on earth. (Isn’t it great?)
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There are things we would disagree about. (I think that’s exciting.)
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You can imagine me, here, at my keyboard, just as I can imagine you, there, looking at these words. (See? We have a connection.)
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You have good taste in blogs. (Okay, so I might be a little biased on this point.)
This is just the tip of the iceberg. I’m sure there are a million other fascinating things about you. I just thought I’d tell you a few, in case no one else had in a while.
The fact that I can say these things, without hesitation, about every single person who reads this post, gives me hope for humanity. It’s a connection. Even if you are the most despicable human on earth (I suspect you aren’t, by the way), we have these things. It’s a starting point. We ought to be able to build from here.
So as you get out there and have a nice day, ponder the fact that all this divisiveness is merely an illusion.
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The View from a Drawbridge 