We are wool.
What if we began not by looking at the world outside us?
But by looking within.
Not at the face in the mirror.
Not at the name we were given.
Not at the story we tell ourselves about who we are.
But deeper.
Much,
Much more deeper.
What are we,
Really?
Take the human body.
From the outside.
It appears to be one thing.
One person.
One body.
One eye.
But look closer.
Peel away the skin.
Look beneath the surface.
They are all guns.
Bones,
Blood,
Nerves,
Tissues.
And goes deeper still.
Smaller.
Smaller.
Until we arrive at the microscopic world.
Cells.
Billions upon billions of them.
Each one with its own structure.
Each one performing its own function.
A hot cell does not try to become a brand cell.
A bone cell does not try to become a blood cell.
A nerve cell does not need to become a muscle cell to have value.
They are different.
They behave differently.
They have different purposes.
And yet.
.
.
They all live inside the same body.
They all participate in the same life.
No cell looks at another cell and says,
You must become like me before you can belong.
The heart does not reject the lungs,
Because they are different.
The lungs do not reject the bones because they have another purpose.
The blood does not ask the skin to become blood.
And the skin does not ask the blood to become skin.
They simply do what they are.
And somehow.
Their differences,
Create a world.
Think about that.
The bad is wool.
Not because every part is the same.
But because every part is allowed to be different and still belong.
That is one of the great lessons hidden inside our own bodies.
Now imagine.
If the cells of the body suddenly forgot that they belong to something larger.
Imagine a cell saying,
I am only a cell.
I only care about myself.
My survival is all that matters.
Why would I care what happens to the lungs?
Another cell thing.
Why should I care about the HUD?
And none other.
The blood is not my problem.
What would happen?
The body will begin to turn against itself.
Because the moment the parts forget the world.
The world begins to suffer.
And humanity.
Is not so different.
We are billions of individuals.
Different languages.
Different cultures.
Different beliefs.
Different histories.
Different ways of seeing the world.
And these differences are real.
We shall not pretend they aren't.
But perhaps we have confused being different with being separate.
They are not the same thing.
A hand is different from a heart.
But they are not separate.
A cell is different from another cell.
But they are not separate.
A drop of water is different from another drop.
But they came from the same ocean.
Think of the ocean.
Take one drop.
Just one.
Look at it.
It is small.
Stay separate,
At least for a moment.
You can point to it and say.
That is the job.
But where did it come from?
The ocean.
And when you return it.
Where does the job end and the ocean begin?
There is no boundary.
Becomes the ocean again.
But the beautiful part is.
.
.
The ocean is not less because the job is different.
The ocean exists.
Because there are countless jobs.
Defense does not destroy the world.
See you friends.
Creates the wall.
Humanity is still learning this.
We all lack cells.
That have become so fascinated.
With our individual existence.
That we have forgotten the body we belong to.
And we see.
My country.
My religion,
My people.
My Family.
My Success.
My Sight.
My Truth.
And slowly.
Becomes more important than we.
Until we begin to protect our little part at the expense of the world.
And then we fight.
One part against another.
One group against another.
One human being against another.
As if destroying another part could somehow make the body healthier.
But imagine the body again.
Imagine your own cells at war with one another.
Won't there be a winner?
If the heart destroys the lungs.
Does the heart survive?
If the blood destroys the bones.
Does the blood become stronger?
If one part of the body wins by destroying another part.
The body still dies.
There is no victory.
When the wall is lost.
The next step in our evolution is not to become more powerful.
It is to become more conscious of the world.
To understand that I can be me.
Without needing you to stop being you.
That I can protect my identity without denying yours.
That I can be different without making you my enemy.
That belonging does not require sameness.
That is the next evolution.
Not the destruction of difference,
But the maturity to hold difference within wellness.
We do not need to become identical.
We need to remember that we are connected.
Because a body cannot be healthy.
While its parts are permanently fighting.
And neither can a society.
Neither can humanity.
If we continue to live as isolated individuals,
Protecting only our own little piece of the ocean.
We may continue to fight over who owns the water.
If we remember that we are all drops of the same ocean.
That something changes.
Not because our differences disappear,
But because they no longer have to separate us.
That is what evolution is asking of us.
Not how do I become more important than you.
How do I become fully myself?
While remembering that I belong to something larger than myself.
The cell must remain a cell.
The heart must remain the heart.
The long must remain the long.
And yet.
.
.
They must remember the world.
Because perhaps the future of humanity depends on learning something our own bodies have known from the beginning.
We can be different without being separate.
We can be individuals.
Without forgetting the wall,
We can belong without becoming the same.
One day.
When we finally understand this.
We will stop asking which part should win.
And start asking how the world can live.
Because the goal was never for every part to become the same.
The goal was always to become.
Why?
