One of the major challenges we have is connection.

Many privileged people, especially those who’ve never truly comprehended their privilege, do not feel connected to our kaleidoscope of a society, the wide ranging, multicultural human race.

It is not that they are bad people, it is just they have had bad educations.

They have not been shown or taught how other people’s lives, different from their own, with experiences and histories that they have never imagined, are not to be seen as the other, but as intrinsically human as they are.

Our lives are spent learning how to live in our specific world, but that doesn’t mean we understand the world outside that. That is the education everyone needs.

Some already have that education, either partly or as a whole, but some, who have unfortunately been led astray by the less honourable, have been made blind to the lives of those who are not in any way like their own.

This is what we need to address.

This is what we must resolve as a community, a society, a species.

To see each other as individuals, capable of the vastness of human emotion, feeling, experience, that makes us, collectively, a better people.

And people, at their best, can achieve anything.

Marissa Klotzbucher - Thoughts and Comments for Public Consumption