The Many of us.

I find that so many of us want to understand everyone. But we want to compare them to ourselves, and this limits us and makes it so that we could never understand why someone makes the choices they do.
This also goes into many different cultures. Americans are the biggest offenders of this. We look at the Orient, or the mid east or even from east coast to west coast and north to south. We think everyone should act like us, make choices like us, live like us, and have laws like us. And because we are not willing to see how someone else thinks, it makes it so that we will never understand why they do what they do.
This is why we have will continue to fight with eachother. It will come from personality differences, cultural differences and background differences. All the things we are fascinated with, and in many cases created something beautiful.
What brought this to mind for me today was watching Sunday Morning on CBS. They were talking to a singer that at 65 has come back into the spotlight. But they were talking about her past. Mostly in the 60's and 70's. She was taken back to an apartment that she moved into in 69. It was a very small one bedroom that her and her later to become gay boyfriend and bandmate. She was always ok with her former lover deciding he was gay. she had very fond memories of the small apartment. Creating music, art, and photography. She later in the 80's got married to another man and had some children. I saw this is part from her youth being able and willing to live in that very small apartment. I have a hard time understanding why she is ok with her said "Soul mate" becoming gay. Although sadly he later died from causes not stated in the story. Her husband died in the mid 90's from heart failure. So after a 15 year marriage she was on her own again. I found her life so interesting knowing I could never live her type of life but how she found so much joy in it.
But I am sure people look at me and think I must be so miserable. They would think my life is boring or tedious. But it is because of our differences that we have such a great and amazing world. So much color and other things we can look at that are beautiful.
   Opening up our minds and allowing a broader look of how others think. This is how we can create world peace or if nothing else atleast have a better understanding or our friends and loved ones.