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The trip home is always an amazing experience. Life is such a fragile thing. I love the time to examine it. I am often reminded of how fragile it is when I sit in an airplane at 50,000 feet up in the air. It seems so curious to me that we can travel in a little pod across time zones and countries and that we can do it in relative safety. Every once in a while I will gaze out the window and feel so insignificantly small and adrift. It helps me realize just how big this universe really is and just how small I really am. It is humbling yet exhilarating experience to have that view of life.

While I was in Argentina I took the opportunity to people watch. I love doing that. It is one of my favorite activities. As I watched, I was struck with the thought of how we are all alike. We want the same things. We get excited about the same kinds of things. I can tell by looking at someone's face if they are happy or sad. It doesn't matter if I speak their language. I can just tell that they are concerned about similar things. We all want to live a happy life. 

I see people who should be happy who aren't and people who should not be happy who are. It is an amazing thing, but I see it everywhere. There is a commonality amongst us that is much bigger than our differences. I love the thought of diversity and I truly believe in celebrating it. I think that there is something unique about each one of us. But I do not think that our unique qualities bring us together. The may play a vital role in keeping us together, but it is our similarities that bring us together. It is what makes us one.

I had an incredible vision of the thought of "oneness" on the plane home. I was watching a movie called The World's Fastest Indian and I just could not help but feel a sense of oneness. It came at very strange point of the movie. The title character befriends a transexual person from Hollywood. Everybody seems to notice that he is hanging out with a transexual but the character. He gets a lot of strange looks, but he just keeps being a true friend and respecting the person for who she is. As I watched, I was overwhelmed by the thought that despite our many differences, we are all children of God.

I hope that doesn't sound too mushy or sweet for you. I just really felt connected to the world for a few moments. It was a wonderful thing. The thought of being "one" is so important to me. I want my friends to be their very best. I am sure that there will be many times when our beliefs will cross and that we will see things differently. When I am able to get past that, I see that there are really far more similarities than differences.

Life is good!

Andrew Thorn

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