Co-existing in a rainy day

Looking out at the familiar scene from my office window, things look grey, overcast, dull. People are walking with heads down, collars up, focused on what they need to do to get through a day such as this. I am sure that for many people, the dark and wet day only adds to existing pressures and problems they face every day in life. Issues that you and I know nothing about.  We can too often live parallel lives, in terms of "social status", geographical boundaries, religion/culture, ability/disability, race. At best we co-exist.

Too often we build our futures alone, looking only to the interest of our community, class, "group" without recourse to any consideration of how this internal focus plays out in building good relations in this place we call home.

We can’t change the past, how we believe we have been treated by “the other” but what if the lens in which we viewed it was one of generosity?  This would involve two elements, first a looking back and considering how we currently locate the story of “the other” in our past and the second is to imagine how things today might have been different if we had acted in another way, if we or our community, group  had been more generous to “the other”.