27 October

What does it mean to be related to another in this world? Is blood, in fact, thicker than water in the end? How do we judge kinship and value a true friend? Is it just to value one another more or less merely because of heritage or name?

In reality we are all the same, born into this realm of earthly core to live and breathe and grow some more. Who we are related to and who we know as friends are just as important as those we’ve yet to meet. We are all one, essentially, when stripped of meat.

And it is this substance which exists outside of time and space that unites us all, and paints us with a brush alike. It gives us all a sense of identification with a stranger in the street, allows us to find that thread of similarity.

Branch out far afield and test your wings. You have been granted the freedom to fly without restriction, and all you need to do is thus believe that you can find a closeness with a faceless stranger down the road, one far less conditional than may exist at home.

Befriend a stranger, take that leap of faith. Trust in another, and in that meeting you will meet your match, and slowly come to know yourself intact. Break down the boundaries that have kept you meek. Think big and accept the world as your home and all your fellow travellers as your family in tow.

This important lesson marks a turning point in life. If you can embrace another as freely as you would a relative or friend, then you have begun to see, with open eyes, a vision grand, the hope that we may all one day soon co-exist, hand in hand, as one, united, happy family of timeless span.