What If We Looked Into One Another?
What would the world be like if we looked into one another — not at one another?
Perhaps we care less about the size of someone’s jeans or the way they wear their hair. Maybe we’d pay less attention to the wrinkles in their shirt and the rips in their jeans and how the stains from lunch managed to make it onto their collar. Perhaps the blemishes on their cheeks and the grey in their hair and whether they wore makeup wouldn’t even register.
Maybe something else would, instead.
Maybe if we looked into one another, not at one another, we’d see something more significant.
Perhaps we’d see how the light reflects the sparkle of their eyes and the grandeur of their dreams.
Maybe we’d see how the light that once stopped us in our tracks is the sparkle of someone who has magic brewing within their heart and soul.
Maybe that light would invite us to ask questions that are deeper than the label of their clothing or their job or the relationships that they hold.
Perhaps we’d begin by asking things like, what do you dream about? What hopes do you hold close? What are the things that light your soul on fire? What are the worries that keep your mind running at night? What are the moments that have made your heart beast faster?
What would the world be like if we looked into one another — not at one another?
Maybe we’d listen more.
Maybe we’d talk more about the things that matter.
Maybe we’d see beyond flesh and bone and skin — and start looking more deeply at hearts, and minds, and souls.
And perhaps, in that space of seeing, we’d grow, together. We’d hear stories and share stories and carry them with us wherever we went, knowing that someone else had a piece of us in return.
And maybe, in that sharing, the world wouldn’t feel so big, and people wouldn’t feel so alone, and we’d remember that there’s so much to connect us, after all.
