A Universe Inside

People never cease to amaze me.

There is so much to a person; first impressions really DON’T count, and we should never look at the exterior or take anything at face value.

You think you know someone after meeting them a few times, then they surprise you with a snippet that makes you take a step back and realise: I really know so little about them.

We marry another human being, thinking we know them, then spend the rest of our lives finding out about them. They surprise us every day!

Inside each person are depths and dreams and longings and desires, and ambition that seems to go on and on.

I may have “known” someone for years, then when they retire, I discover they always had a passion to travel the world, or hand glide or take a cruise.

This reinforces the notion that we only see a snapshot of a person. A Still. An extract taken out of context from a book. Sometimes the person themselves doesn't realise how big their ‘book’ is. Each turn of a page, and I find out more about myself I hadn't realised was there previously.

We are all born with a universe inside: vast, untamed, fiery, explosive, spacious, interesting, ever expanding. As we grow up, we try and compartmentalise, act in a socially acceptable way, say things that will gain us approval, but really, there is a Universe within, waiting for the right person to explore us, or the right trigger to reveal itself.

Let’s respect each other, from the youngest child to the oldest grand parent, from the highest IQ to the lowest IQ, we are all People, and we all have the same creativity, life, passion, fears, loves, needs and DEPTH inside of us. A universe in each of us. Respect.