THY NEIGHBOR BE THY FRIEND

Have you ever read a newspaper or watched a story about something terrible that happened to someone that you don’t know and yet you feel somehow torn at what happened to a perfect stranger to the point where it may even bring your eyes to well up in tears? This is a very natural human response to our responsibility to all mankind. Imagine if living in your small neighborhood the only ones whose life you touch or whose life touched you were the people only that lived in your house, or on your block, or your co-worker, and/or your classmate. That would truly be a very small circle, but truly all are touched by what we do or what we say. Most things we do will have an effect on someone outside of our circle. If at work we produce a product does it not get distributed to many outside of our circle? If at school studying a particular field does that not effect change that we will be contributing outside of our circle to our field of study? If at home, do we not raise our children and teach them to respect others and go out of their circle? Do not all of these conditions affect our neighbor? Is our neighbor the person next door or across the ocean? Is Earth round and does it evolve around the sun or does it just stay put never changing always effecting the exact same outcomes day after day, year after year? No it does not stay put and it does effect change with its movements and so does mankind. All of us effect change to the world that we live in through our thoughts, actions and energy. So let’s all make our neighbor our friend. Be they next door or across the ocean, let’s make the world a better place and have thy neighbor be thy friend.