How We Choose to Care

What makes us care?

If we take a moment to think of something we care about, you and I will likely care about a person, place or idea because we understand it as a “we.”

Yet, somehow caring has become a deconstructive experience for many further isolating “I” from “We.”

The world is waking up from this.

The world is shifting caring from a reductive to an expansive experience.

The ability of caring to become expansive rests on shifting listening, speaking and acting on behalf of “We” instead solely “I” and the fear embedded in us vs. them.

It’s about caring so much about the world that you honor your place in it instead of thinking you are it.

It’s about caring so much that to care becomes an act to build each other up, instead of tearing ourselves and others down from the inside out.

It’s about not taking things so personally that we are able to listen, to learn and to right our wrongs.

While taking everything so damn personally that our thoughts, words and actions eradicate apathy instantly.

Caring can revolve around “I” and can keep us locked up in boxes based upon division.

Or it can welcome us home to “We” to build a better, more fair and more just one together.

We can do it.

We should do it.

We must do it.

Its really only a question of if we care enough to…