One Big Family

We’ve talked about the two pillars of family and some traditions so what’s next?

Let’s talk about the largest family in the world, the human race. All 7 billion of us are a family together residing in our home - the planet. However, while all might be aware that we are all a family, we certainly don’t treat each other like it. Instead, we bring suffering, pain, resentment, generational racism and disrespect amongst one another solely due to differences in how to lead life.

In every family, multiple people are more experienced who teach the inexperienced certain lessons in life. And while in our own family we respect the elders and their choices for leading their own lives, we don’t carry this forward to our big human race family. Furthermore, every family consists of an average of 3-4 people. Each individual is their own person but they all come together to form a unit, one where decisions that affect each other’s lives heavily are usually taken together. The bouncing of ideas and perspectives is natural in that scenario. Often times we may listen to what other family members say or we may still end up doing what we wish. Either way, we have collectively come to the decision.

So, with that said, the question is: why do we not carry these traits forward to our biggest family? I fully understand that it’s easier to do the aforementioned with a smaller family than a large but if we break it down, we can think about it as an “x” number of small families forming one big family. If each family works on being respectful of other families, allows other perspectives to be taken into consideration, spreads kindness rather than filling one another up with hate, focuses on being better people individually then collectively our biggest family will begin to pave the path towards becoming better. We will truly begin to come together.

Every spiteful thought we may have against another human or group is passed down to us through generations. Often times we don’t even know why we are spiteful. So, it’s time we work on being better people to our biggest family as a whole rather than just our own families. Break the generational stigmas against people. Learn and understand more about others with an open mind. Let’s come together and save our biggest family because it seems like we need to do it soon.