My 500 Words: A Writing Challenge - Day 20




Today's prompt says to write about about an important cause.

A cause that's important to me is unity. We aren't unified, and this is the time it is most needed. Martin Luther King said, ".... I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character..."

I have a dream that one day we will be unified. Not fighting to prove who is better, stronger, or smarter, but seeing that we are stronger together.

I have a dream that one day we will see the bigger picture. The one that shows that everyone has value.

We have so many schisms, so many divisions. We have broken each other down, but we need to build each other up.

I have a dream that humanity will be whole. To do that we must put aside our differences. We must stop fighting amongst ourselves and with ourselves. Our true enemy is not a person. It is the whole system of the way the world operates. Things have been set up to cause us to hate each other. Hate will never breed unity. Hate only breeds hate.

Love breeds unity. Compassion breeds unity. Connection and relationship breed unity. We don't even know what unity means. We are so disconnected from everything. We are merely existing. We are content to just do things on the surface level, afraid of the truths we would uncover if we dared to go a little deeper.

Whether we want to admit it or not, we can't be our best self if we are not unified. We have to have others in our life if we want to succeed and thrive. Think of it this way, a branch will wither and die if it's not connected to a vine. We have abandoned our life source because we have fooled ourselves into thinking we are self-sufficient.

Our nation is not unified because we don't know what we believe. Our nation is not unified because families are divided. We are not unified because we still think our voice should be the loudest. We are not unified because we love criticism. I dare to say we thrive on it because it is everywhere. We have stopped looking for the good things happening around us. We argue just for the sake of arguing, never achieving anything.


To achieve unity, we have to work towards agreement. We have to want peace more than we want to be right. When something is united, it is about the sum of all the parts coming together. It is no longer about an individual or a group of people. It is about everyone. We have to be willing to say, "Your vision is now my vision. Your heart is my heart. When you hurt, I hurt. When you rejoice, I rejoice."

I have faith we will get to that place one day. Oh, what a day that will be! As Martin Luther King beautifully stated, "With this faith we will be able to transform the jangling discords of our nation into a beautiful symphony of brotherhood."

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