Two ice cubes, and all the same people.

Belief on how we all are one - a single entity.

She likes Thai food, and I like an Indian home-cooked meal.

She likes to sing, and I love to play my guitar.

She’s so immiscible, and I’m just not.

So, does this make us different? And if we are so different, then why she breathes just like me? Why not different?

This fact that we all are unique isn’t making us all the same people – with ideas, dreams, emotions, hopes, fears, pains, etc.?

We all love this idea that we’re different and unique; we’ve got something that stands us apart from the rest.

We love this idea that this thing is mine and that’s yours.

We have been brought up with this idea that if something belongs to me, it can’t belong to someone else.

People now would say that in today’s time, we really don’t think like that. The world has changed.

People have become better.

But are they? Are we thinking about someone to have a good life? Some would say yes.

And I believe them. You’d, too.

But it only feels good on the surface. If we are challenged by a situation, for example, standing in a queue in a grocery store, we’ll only think about ourselves. We won’t think we all are one.

But we are one.

And the analogy of two ice cubes fits perfectly here.

From an icebox, you pick two ice cubes. One looks big, so another looks small.

There’s a bowl, too.

You hold the ice cubes in your hand for a while. They look different. They are different.

And then, you put them in the bowl. After a while, there are no ice cubes.

All you can see is…water.

Those ice cubes became one. And just like them, we all are different ice cubes, but if put together, we become one.

We are one—descendant of the same stream of water. Hence, if you think you’re different and other people don’t matter. Never forget that they might think the same unless you change.

We are different, yet at the same time we are not.