Today a thought made me very curious – that why we humans keep fighting and debating about our differences but never celebrate our commonalities. The more I thought, the more inquisitive I became to inquire about our human nature. And more I pondered, I realized we have more commonalities than differences. 

 

Just look around the world; all we humans have done is divide ourselves based on the differences. The most prominent one is our religion. But we humans are such fools if anyone would have bothered to use their brains and try to understand their own and other’s religions they would have come to a common conclusion that 90% of the teachings of all the major religions worldwide are the same. We only have a 10% difference in the way we practice our religion. Instead of being happy about this fact, instead, what we humans do is fight and divide among ourselves in the name of religion. And as if just this difference was not enough, we have further created more divisions and subdivisions within our own religion, for example:

Christianity: Protestant/Catholic/Presbyterianism/Anglicanism/Cathari

Islam: Sunni /Shia/Wahhabism/Bahaiism/Sufism/Ahmadiyya

Judaism: Orthodox, Conservative, Reform, Reconstructionist

Buddhism: Theravada/Mahayana/Vajrayana Buddhism

 

And this division of differences is not only seen in religion but every aspect of our human life—divisions based on nationality, color, status, thoughts, education, and various philosophies. 

 

The real problem is not the actual physical differences but the idea of the supremacy we each one of us holds in our mind about our own religion, nation, color, status, thoughts, education, and various philosophies. We do not have the courage and openness to include someone else’s ideas into ours. We have created these artificial borders, and we fight hard to defend those illusionary borders that don’t exist in reality but just in our heads as an IDEA.  

 

We humans have been on this planet for thousands of years and have fought enough on our differences. I believe its due time that we find common ground that we all can unite for and find the commonalities among us. In the end, all we need and strive for is love, peace & happiness. For the sake of Humanity (Human+Unity), lets us unite and celebrate our commonalities rather than to divide on our differences.