Unity in Our Difference
¨There’s so much virtue in difference but even more in accepting it,¨ yelled my friend as we walked hand in hand, marching in this year’s parade. Even though I wasn’t like her, I was willing to walk alongside her as she and many others embraced who they truly were. She taught me what being brave was and despite us not being the same, I carry that lesson with me wherever I go. That’s what being open to difference does. It pushes you to your limits and forces you to see things from different perspectives. Let’s embrace that.
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To Leave Comments - Please SignIn with GoogleHello Andrea, and welcome to Voice Club! Your story is a lovely example of accepting and supporting those who are different. That’s a nice picture, as well. Is that some of your art work?
Thank You, Fuji. It´s actually more of a panicked doodle I made when I was asked to submit a unique picture. I figured there was no better way to illustrate my story than to actually draw what I had written. 🙂
Your drawing is perfect. By the way, just in case you ever need it, many of us get our pictures from Unsplash.com. There are thousands of royalty-free, public-domain photos there and some are incredible works of art.
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To Leave Comments - Please SignIn with GoogleHi Andrea and welcome. Lovely first story. I love the way you’ve advocated embracing each others differences. It’s something we should all do. Life would be so boring if we were all the same.
A warm welcome here at the Voice club. Your story is very good advocacy to everyone. For me, acceptance of every human difference is a symbol of peace and love throughout the world. And it means simultaneous development.
Hi Andrea, and welcome. Tell me what you think? I know there are a lot of different opinions of how we see and understand each other, and what the word different means to us? But I’m thinking………wouldn’t it be nice if we didn’t see – difference! The advertising industry make their money telling us we are all so different, and that we need to change our appearance, or the style we live… Read more »
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To Leave Comments - Please SignIn with GoogleI personally think that it´s that very difference that makes each one of us remarkable. I think without it the world wouldn’t be as special.
Thanks for your story and welcome to Voice.club, Andrea. You are the first one, beside me as a Swedish gringo, from Colombia, participating in Voice.club. Your story is beautiful and important to be told, over and over, until Love in all its aspects and colors is accepted as what it is (Your picture, love = love is perfect!) and not seen as a threat. I am impressed by your English and wonder… Read more »
Thank you, Christer. You´d be very surprised to find out that bilingualism is very common amongst my age group, however, I have lived in many different countries prior to living in Colombia.
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To Leave Comments - Please SignIn with GoogleWhat a nice story, Andrea. Indeed accepting our differences is worth embracing. Also welcome to voice.club.
I love this title so much as well as your story. It is such a great message. It is nice to see some of your artwork as the image.