I have 2 wishes for humanity:
Wish #1
I wish that humanity becomes better able to think outside of its "boxes" of ego, national identity, and individual generations.
But specifically regarding individual generations:
That we could move beyond... to see ourselves, as we've been for so long, as blips in time... like beats or notes of a grand music. Stretching behind us and stretching before us are countless lives of humans. I think it is time we can look on our existence as a species with a
wider perspective- not seeing each generation individually, but seeing the expanse of individual and generational existences as a music. So if we can see ourselves as notes in a grand music, we can ask how we would like the music to be; how we would like it to sound.
Wish #2
That we can be better aware and caring of life beyond our species. That we can move away from the selfish perspective of a human-species egotism. Slowly, the Western, Christian-based ideal that animals have no feeling- no sense of pain, of stress, and no emotion, is breaking down through research. I wish that we can just discard the ideal that we are so much removed and better from the living world around us, and act as if we are a part of it; that we act with compassion not only with other humans, but with all living things, to the best of our ability.
