Humanity to Love

I love people.  I am so moved and humbled and inspired by people.

I am not so inspired by them while sitting in traffic, or looking for the whole-milk greek yogurt in a store committed to its customers buying fat free products, but that will be left for another time.

I am so rocked by people.  And what moves me is not only when someone creates something extraordinary--like a leadership program in a prison system, or a dental care service for homeless children--but that in accomplishing these amazing feats, we are showing the rest of the world that the extraordinary is possible.  Like Roger Bannister popping the lid off of the once inconceivable four-minute mile, we are ripping the lid off of humanity, of what is possible in being human.  Not just some human beings with talents more special than others, but for each and every human being on the planet.

I am moved by people who's actions are a calling to others--that those dreams you have left on the shelf in the back of your mind--resigned that they will ever come to be in all their imagined glory--they are possible.  Not only are they possible, but you are the one who can and will fulfill on them.  There is nothing separating Roger Bannister from you--or me for that matter.  There is no superhero power that Martin Luther King, Jr, or Nelson Mandela, or Mahtma Ghandi have that you do not.

I love people that are a demonstration of this--that anything is possible and they are going to use their lives as an example.