Thought after watching yet another End of the World movie

If we absolutely knew that the world would end tomorrow, that our country, our society, our planet and everything we know would be gone and all vestiges of our lives forever blotted from the pages of history, how petty and unimportant would seem the hurts, the wrongs, the ill will and prejudices we all hold against each other?  We all would embrace each other in our common humanity and our common destiny and feel, perhaps for the first time in human history, that we were all connected, all sharing the same fate, all One.  That thought, that feeling, would be a supreme gift in the face of disaster.

In fact, we can receive that gift each night when we go to sleep and each day when we arise.  Every day, we have the opportunity, by a conscious decision of the will, to sweep away all of the accumulated years of negativity, to let go of all of the myriad things that separate us from each other and cause pain and disassociation in our lives.  For that single day, we have the chance to live as though we were all connected, all One.  It is up to each of us, every single day, to decide whether or not we will make that decision and take that opportunity.