Everybody, essentially

Everybody is essentially...different. 

Unfortunately, there is a lot of contrived Kumbaya-level, touchy-feely hokum bandied about these days by pop psychologists that claims we are all the same under the skin. 

We may be all the same under the skin physically, but that's where the similarity ends.

We are not all the same when it comes to emotional, spiritual, cultural or even social expressions, not even close.

We are seven billion disparate humans, and for whatever reason there are people trying to convince us (and one another ) that we are all the same so we should be able to get along just peachy keen if we would only just take a minute to pause and reflect on that little fact, and then, you know, group hug.

That's what's killing us right there, the effort being made to convince us all we are the same.

A better effort needs to be made in quite the other direction. People need to be made aware that everybody has a different perspective, different attitude towards what does and what does not constitute a fulfilling life.

Because it's rather obvious that not too many of us agree on that differentiation. 

Everybody is different...and I'm okay with that.