Pondering the Individual

A book, Operation Homecoming, I am reading contains this thought.

To the world each of us is an individual. In our daily lives we are the world to some individual.

As a father like the one in the book I know the meaning of those words. Every one of us has someone special in our lives to whom we mean the world.

The same is true for every human alive in our world today. Every person in the world means the world to some other person. If we think in that context we may be able to better understand the anger and outright hatred generated by our military actions around the globe. No person accepts with gratitude the death or injury of a person who is the world to them. How much more effect would our nation have in this world if we treated every person in the world as if they meant the world to each of us?

Peace.