It's more about mountains than anything else

I blog from a handheld music-playing web browsing device. This is a first.
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Maybe I can sum it all up in a simple philosophy I've been living by since at least the third grade:
Nobody is any different than anybody else.
Now of course you're gonna be the instant skeptic and point out the obvious and massive social and physiological differences that litter and divide between all humans on the streets and in their homes. Take a redneck shotgun-swingin Midwesterner and compare him to a timid middle-of-Russia housewife who's never been outside of her village's 4-mile-radius and see what true human qualities still sync up. But don't you see it? That's exactly my point. Because my totally wayward comparison still does not seem all that validating (for instance it's likely the Midwesterner might potentially be one friends with the Russian)It's proof to me that geographically or socially ingrained traits do not hold up in the final showdown between two people.
Ill give you an example. Seven years ago somewhere in the mythical land of New York, two buildings were knocked down by two airplanes and some people died. For some reason, following that situation the once-strangers of our massively spread out country found themselves joining hands, regardless of racial or cultural or physical affiliation. For once in a lifetime people everywhere looked at each other as equals and respected them so, because we were forced to forget our differences and
consider something bigger than the problems we've constructed between ourselves. Worries melted away in the shadow of a much bigger fear.
Now take that feeling of joint boundary-less comradery - living without judgment or disrespect for one brief stint if time - and wipe away the element of Fear. Imagine maintaining that same level of respect without judgment, minus the Fear machine forcing us there.
(No wonder the Bush administration was based on fear, he discovered that fear is one very effective way to bring people together, thanks to 9/11.)
Why do we have to wait for national disasters or humane crises before loving and respecting one another? If it's possible to feel that way ever, I say let's feel that way now.
Don't get me wrong, it's important to experience drama and passion, develop strength and integrity as a friend and lover and member of this world. But beneath it all, where we all once began is the same exact place and thing. No person is inherently bad or good, we are all just living together doing different things. If we could learn to love and accept the choices of others I think the world might not be such a bad place after all. This is a really simple concept that could still use some work, you know?