Just People

In spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart. ~ Anne Frank Read

Imagine a pirate is charging at you. His beard is black, skin sunburnt, and a hat adorns his dread locked hair. As he is charging, he is wielding a cutlass, and he is screaming. Although, you might be thinking about other things. It is important to remember that this fine specimen of humanity is a human being, and people, no matter what they are, are still people.

Whatever happens to people, whether through war, through pain, through horror, something that we should always remember that people are still people. People will always be people, whether they be from a different culture, or different place. They have hurts, they have needs, they bleed as we bleed. We are all humans, brothers and sisters in this life we walk.
In this regard, we should carry each other, help one another. We are all the same. Caring for one another just seems so important as we live on this large ball in this great expense.

Despite that though, what I do acknowledge, that while people are still people, it doesn't mean that they have the same mindset or beliefs that we have. People often mistake people just being people makes us all pretty mostly the same. Yes, that is true to a certain extent, but when people go through certain things, taught certain ways, it's not that they lose their humanity, but it can radically alter it.

For example, all humans want to be loved. However, some will seem to not like love, just for the very reason they have been hurt in the past. They still are people, but they are hurt, which brings us to the core of the matter.

People are still people, but they can also be: angry people, sad people, and dangerous people, but all very human. This is why we cannot all be treated the same. If you have a friend that likes sports, you go out and do sports. If you have a friend that likes eating pizza, you eat pizza with him or her. It's not that one is not your friend anymore then the other, it's just they have different likes and are different people. At the core, they are your friend, but they should be treated differently.

In the same manner, you cannot treat our pirate friend before as mentioned as someone who is your neighbor who invites you over for lemonade and you lend them household appliances. You are not denying this pirate his humanity, but the truth is, people of different places will have very different ideas from you. So you cannot, one emphases on this, you cannot treat them all the same, they have a totally different mindset.

As Mr Pirate bring downs his blade, you might know that, he can’t afford medicare, he’s doing this for his mother, or he’s doing for his kid and wife who both have cancer. All that will not help you or him. You because, while he is still a fellow human, his ideals are very much different from you, and you may get severally hurt, because you believe that since everyone is human they should be treated the same no matter what. For him, because after maybe sending you off to see what’s behind the veil, he may very well join you. Leaving his kids, wife, and mother behind, because being a pirate is a hazardous lifestyle. All this is really because you don’t believe that other humans need to be treated differently.

To sum it up, we should always be polite to one another. However, we shouldn't expect that if we treat others as we want that they will follow suit. It's not that we mistrust people or that we mistreat people, but rather that we show wisdom with each individual and situation.