WE NEED EACH OTHER

Hello there, last evening I bumped on to my old school mate and she had all grown, I couldn't even identify her but thank God she did recognise me, you know that exitement one gets when you meet an old school mate, we straight away looked for a restaurant, helped our selves to some juice and well talked about what we were both doing, asked about our fellow school mates as well... and brought up all the funny things that took place while at school.I must say this former school mate of mine was really anotorious girl back then at school and whenever there was agroup of students going for apunishment she wouldn't miss out and believe me I didn't want her for a friend, but last evening I discoverd that we as human beings needed each other.I found out why and these are the reasons;We need each other...In times of private pain,of fear and stress.
We need each other...to share our joys, our times of happiness;
We need each other...to hold on and be strong, and encourage when things are going wrong;
We need each other...to keep the faith and love,and remind each other of all the things we're dreaming of;We need each other... now and always.
We are now good friends, actually I didnt like her behaviour then.

The above also brings to my mind the stigma affecting the HIV positive people in our societies, normally such people are discriminated in all aspects which is wrong. I got to know of a young lady who contracted the dreaded disease when she was helping nurse her mother who sadly died after along illness and when I talked to her this was her story,
"when my father died,our relatives came and grabbed all our property, threw us out of our house and we were sent to the village, me and my three siblings couldn't go to school any more since our mother wasn't working, so we stayed at home and went to the garden where we planted some food that kept us going. One day our mom fell so ill that she couldn't walk any more, she normally got sick but this time it was too bad.I looked for help every where but all in vain thats when I heard the gossip that my mom had Aids.I asked her and she said she wasn't sure and then I learnt that Aids was also got through sharing sharp objects and we as a family had been sharing razor blades because we were there for each other and when our mother died, we were left helpless and another tragedy befell us, our last born died too"

To cut the story short and to emphasise what am trying write is that, unless we realize that we, as a people, are on the same team, it will be extremely difficult if not impossible to experience the joy of differences and the richness of diversity. Let us always keep in mind that we complement each other. We share the common lot of humanity. Though we may be different, our needs remain similar. All of us need to be loved, to be appreciated, and to be needed. Let us get together and celebrate one another. Let us reset our focus and experience the joy of differences.

I have also realised that Our differences should make us reach out to one another. They should bring us closer together in order to learn from and about each other. The ultimate joy would be experienced as soon as we realized that each of us is a piece of a puzzle and, that without each other, we would make an incomplete picture. The joy of differences will be experienced by our fellowship with one another.

Therefore,The only way we can see ourselves objectively is through the reflection of others. We can go off and sit in a cave and meditate for years, but we only really find out what happened in that cave when we come out and get involved with other people. So we need each other if we want to evolve.
Till then.