Included

I don't vote, I'm not an activist. There are causes upon causes that I'd volunteer for, but get bogged down. I have compassion for the world, I wish I could include everyone in a little love and warmth. How can reality be so harsh. Everyone so alone and so much the same, how can it be so hard. So lonely. I want to heal the world, I want to fix the world. Why do we make enemies of each other? Our ideologies are different so we have things to discuss, to make the world a more colorful place, more lively and entertaining... So then, where did the violence and the misunderstanding and the fear come from. For all the languages present and accepted, why can't our different words and expressions for all our many ideologies and opinions and faiths and beliefs also be accepted?
I came upon this thought pattern much earlier today and was inspired to transfer it here by music.
I was thinking to myself, Iraq is very much present in most American's mind. Mostly negative I imagine. Like get our troops out or for the very fearful and close minded: bomb that sucker flat and forget about.
The former sentiment is more to my thinking, however, I came upon the thoughts of: why can't we see eye to eye. On the remote chance that I could travel the world, it would be amazing to greet any and everybody with a smile and a mind-set "We are the same."
I wasn't raised religiously, perhaps spiritually. I wasn't part of a "club" of sorts, where people could be excluded if they didn't fit the mold. So I stride toward seeing everyone in the same light.
"We" are not that different. I have the same insecurities, doubts, troubles, dream, hopes, happiness as anyone I lay eyes upon. I may not know the details involved, but I know they run along the same lines.
Our struggles arise from fear. At least we have that in common.