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If you could be granted one thing, no limit and no strings attached what would you wish for? I did some thinking about this and immediately I could vision a picnic that included everyone in the world. In my vision we were all basking in the sun on blankets or dancing around and sharing all of our food. Everyone was wearing the most original clothes and really showing up exactly as the person they are, without any mind paid to what anyone would think. Everyone was happy, healthy and at peace.

When I think about this it only makes me wonder what you could want with your one wish if you are not really in to this picture I have painted. I wondered if I told you about this, if you could see it too. Is there any part of the picture you have trouble with? Is there any part you’d rather leave out?

Let us talk about the opposites you could think of regarding this picture. Do you have a problem going to a picnic? Do you have a problem with including everyone no matter the color of their skin? Do you have a problem sitting in the sun, on a blanket, dancing around or sharing your food? Do you have a problem with people showing their individual style that may not be something you’d wear? Do you have a problem with everyone being happy, healthy and at peace?

Let us just say that maybe you don’t want any part of it. Let us paint a picture of that. You stand alone or just with the people you deem worthy to be at a function with you. You don’t share anything and everyone you know is wearing a uniform that you approved. Everyone acts according to what you have approved and you spend your time writing up a list of people you think should get to be happy, healthy and at peace. Then you decide what should happen to everyone you leave off your list.

I think this last version may just be closer to the way we actually live right now. People have a really hard time trying to imagine trying to include everyone.

Paint a picture in your mind of the perfect world and what that looks like to you. If it leaves anyone out, I pretty sure we have a problem. I’m pretty sure that is why you see people in the streets fighting to be included. Imagine what it would be like if you were that person being left out or what if it was someone you love that was being left out?

One last thing and I’ll go. I think you can sum up all the world's problems if you never made anyone feel left out. Maybe, just maybe, it is a feeling of being left out that is the root of all pain and not to compare the two groups but in some extreme cases, it is the root of all hate.

Work on your picture until it includes everyone and we can be the architects of a new earth.