Adina's Page

I believe that we really are all one but that we are also not the same. The richness of the diversity of human cultures is like the beauty of the flower and plant diversity of the rain forest. Each culture adding its own brand of knowledge and complexity to the tapestry our collective consciousness. I read that there was once a community of people in the south pacific whose men could use their testicles to navigate their ships in the dark. I heard a myth that Hawaii came to be because a group of Africans dreamed of the most beautiful place in the world and levitated this land from the depths of the sea. Without this diversity we would not have the pyramids in one part of the world and Stonehenge in the other. I am always amazed at how human groups can take the same ideas, materials etc. and create such distinctive masterpieces. I believe it is important to acknowledge differences because it makes the importance of finding commonalities even greater and inspiring. The fact that people can be on opposite sides of the world, grow up in distinctly difference environments, yet share a love for hip-hop or whatever else is amazing. Because our differences are really expressions of the same common truths that govern our existence and discovering these common truths helps us to realize that we are really all one.