I was riding the bus the other day with two severely handicapped young people, a man in a wheelchair with no legs and two elderly, frail women who were headed shopping but could hardly walk. Also a women fresh out of the women's prison.
Headed up Center street from downtown, the bus passed two restaurants were the fashionable and professional people eat lunch.
I sat on that bus observing polar opposites in lifestyle, appearance and everything else. I have also sat in both camps having attended those types of lunches and now spending my days with the people on the bus.
Sitting there I realized something shocking, both groups are the same. While at first glance they seem to have no similarities, at closer inspection they are full of the same things; fear, hope, faith, anger, love, jealousy, hatred, bias and a thousand other human characteristics.
Admittedly the lives are completely different, but one group does not have the corner on happiness or goodness. Nor does one group have the corner on poor or villainous behavior.
Turns out people are just people. So next time you see an undesirable and have the haughty thoughts of superiority or next time you see a haughty or superior person and have the feelings of hatred and jealousy, stop; remember; people are people.
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