Greet people: Good [morning/afternoon/evening] all
Anyway, there is an idea I would like to share with you today. It is an idea that can change the way we relate with one another, the way we relate with our communities and with the world. It starts with three simple words, I am you.
These words, at the surface, may seem a little esoteric or even metaphysical, But with some attendance, they are of great significance. For in essence, they evoke the important truth of oneness that goes even beyond many differences; it speaks of humanity, our common humanity.
Explaining the Meaning of the Phrase “I Am You”.
So, when a person says, ‘I am you’, what does it mean? Certainly, it is not a sound endorsement or a metaphoric expression; it implies an invitation to seize the spirit of humanity. It means, understanding that
You Are Being Tapped Into Our Collective Experience As A Human Being
Down inside all of us, emotions exist – joy, pain, hope, fear; we save the bull for jokes, cry for losses and long for love. So, the outward differences of kind, cultures, looks or beliefs are but mere form variations of the same central human theme. Then, ‘I am you’ becomes a recognition that whatever happens as one member of us somehow will happen to every member of us.
- We Are All One
People live in a society where they are interdependent. Life is quite different and complex in nature. It requires utmost strength and bravery to strife for self objectives. Interdependence is realizing that “I am you” means my success corresponds to your success’.
2. We Are All Composed of Each Other
As a person overcomes their fears, others do. An individual who smiles, tries to strengthen the pace of kindness in the surroundings. The opposite is also true, the faults we see in others are the shortcomings each of us finds hard to accept in ourselves. I am you is a plea to understand how to expand our own limitations, if not entirely metamorphose them.
3. Why Show Empathy
The focus of “I am you” is also sharpened by the fact that understanding and empathy, that is, “putting oneself in one’s shoes,” is the position at the engender of “I am you.” Empathy is what renders judgmental sentiments impossible.
In a world that often feels divided, leaders need to step up, for instance instead of always imagining the worst, throw out the question What would I want People to do if I doing my best? What if everyone stopped treating others as people they have never met, as people they have met and want to understand.
Empathy breaks down walls. It changes “us and them” to “we”. And everything begins with the simple statement: “I am you”.
Reconciliation
In spite of the fact that we share a home called the Earth, the world is filled with cultural walls, racial walls, social walls, and economic walls. There are barriers that may be erected between groups of people and even between individuals. However, maybe the walls of “I am you” tend to destroy and shatter.
1. In the Form of Racism: Dispelling Stereotypes
Predjudice is just a product of ignorance and lack of understanding. When we see someone as being so vastly different from ourselves, it makes it easier to judge them, to hate them. But when we say to ourselves “I am you” then we begin seeing people not as “other people” but as people who have their own stories, struggles and their own set of goals and dreams.
2. How to Make it Grow Stronger: Becoming More Compassionate
Compassion journeys together with the realization that we are all equally vulnerable. Whether it is poverty, loss or injustice, let the emotion be anger or sadness or regret, it is something we would all resonate with into deeper layers of their situations. When we say “I am you” we begin to feel their struggle and want to fight for them.
3. Acceptance And Belongingness And The Aftermath But Where Do We Go From Here: Encouraging Feeling of Oneness
Once again, the world would be much better without borders, as ‘I am you’ explains. We are reminded what matters, what is the most important aspect of out humanity, where we all have the same goal and is what moves us.
Embodying the “I Am You” Philosophy
It could be easy to acknowledge “I am you” while forgetting about actively pursuing to practice that sentiment. On the contrary, actually practicing is something else entirely. This sentiment requires stepping outside of our comfort zones, courage, and the willingness to actively pursue that practice daily. Here are a few ideas on how we can integrate this mindset into our daily principles.
1.Active and Empathetic Listening
About 90% of the world does not understand the concept of empathetic listening or active listening: listening to respond, because we all want to be heard: watching an excellent movie that is only 10 minutes long and we all want to star in it. So, the first step we can take is to break that paradigm and actively listen by being empathetic, so imagine yourself in their shoes: how does what you are telling them feel like, what is the feeling they are trying to extract out of you? What is the end goal of your message?
2. Breakdown Assumptions
People are much more than just the labels they wear or how they decide to present themself and there would be countless of people that stereotype others on the assumptions that they build based on what they see, which is regrettably extremely common. Remember, “I am you” means their experiences could have been of school shootings for mere children in America in other circumstances, when the time period is taken into consideration.
3. Show More Kindness
Kindness is in each of us, and the only thing we need to do is be more of Show More Kindness, and Kindness is way more valuable than a simple wish because we can share smiles or lend a helping hand which would mean so much more than just sharing words, smiles and handshakes, kindness does not even need a reason, and more importantly, kindness can be of great comfort in a world that is brutally harsh to everyone.
4. Sift For Shared Experiences
There’s plenty of literature out there that talks about the importance of empathy such as thinking about people’s hopes or fears. In this line of thought, i ask you to consider why you would dislike someone. I’ll go ahead and refine my question even more for you: why would you judge someone yourself? If you think you are better than them, what would make them dislike you.
Shaping Reality One Step At A Time
Love is an amazing trait to possess, and empowering every single person one act of kindness at a time is perhaps the best showing love to the best of one’s capability – though I can’t help but wonder how many lives can one act of love touch in the first place? We are all trying to make it in lives in our own ways, we have our own goals that we want to achieve. Whether or not we will be able to fully understand it will never be possible to tell, but every action we would take will have consequences and it certainly goes without saying they’re gonna be mighty huge.
The world has its fill of divide, and it also has enough of unity; it’s rapidly available when you switch the lifestyle to ‘where unity is sought out ‘ – All you have to do to promote this urge is say, “you are me” – and it will transform.
The Movement That Needs To Be Done
Now think of the opposite, how do you think it would feel to be in a world where ‘you are me’ isn’t a just a phrase that’s say in sarcasm instead it becomes the only sentiment people nurture to be in. People in a healthy working environment would stick together and care for one another, wouldn’t they? When reality strikes and we all feel helpless at times, and so many people attach themselves to this negative feeling that it leaves them broken, and it would just be so much easier if we all believed in loving each other and having the utmost amount of tolerance.
This vision is not just a fantasy. We can all put an end to it in this very moment. If you care to realize, the next time you see a friend, a stranger, or someone you quarrel with, think this: I am you.
Thank you. We can build a world where compassion and togetherness exists.
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