Conversation

We’re not that different, you and I.

You don’t have much money? I have a little. There are people who have none. Money is not a measure of worth. Those who have little are sometimes happier than those with much. But you need food? Eat some of mine. You need shelter? Come into my house. We’re much the same after all; your needs are neither greater nor less than mine.

Your God is the one true God? So is the God of my neighbour. Who cares if they’re not the same? Let each person believe what they choose. It does no one any harm. I believe in no God. Yet my heart and your heart and my neighbour’s heart are neither more nor less pure for what we believe. It is our actions rather than our words which show the merit of our soul. We could all learn from each other’s gods – for is not the love and humanity which all religions teach the same? Why squabble over labels and words when the soul is the same?

You like men? So do I! So what that you’re female and I’m male. Love is love. The bond between two people, between two hearts, between two souls, is always a beautiful thing. Who cares where it comes from? If we have been given the gift of love, why not share it?

We have our differences. From that we can learn. We view the world through different eyes. But it is the same world. Perhaps if we looked through each other’s eyes from time to time we would see so much more.

We’re not that different, you and I. Not where it counts.