Holistic Humanity

So this has very little to do with Judaism other than as perhaps a springboard on my growing awareness of people. I was struck while listening to the character of C.S. Lewis from Shadowlands, talking about how pain doesn't make something more real or even more significant. I started to think about how no one person can experience everything. One person can't even experience a minority of the gambit of human experiences there are.

I don't know if that minor statement could even begin to scratch the hugeness of that fact. Imagine first, a man whose never loved someone, never been in love, never physically been with another human being. Think about how lonely that man is. Think about how sad, and what experiences he has. Now think of a man who's slept his way through college, fell in love got married and then, one night his wife was killed in a mugging gone wrong, that man's pain. Everything that hurts, how he deals with that. And those are two negative examples. Two specific tiny examples.

If we recognize how flabergastingly different these two lives are, the minds, and-4 the choices then we could begin to understand how every single life on the planet is completely unique, completely kodesh. (hebrew for holy, it also means singular, unique, special.) It should stagger the mind. Think of every choice you make, think of making a different choice just once in one moment of your life. That changes everything your experience is now completely different.

Humanity is a huge organism, or if you prefer humanity is a single person, with the experiences of each and every individual making up the global conscious. I'm positive that I'm getting into some Kabbalic thoughtlines here, but I'm not really trying to at the moment, maybe a bit latter, Right now I want to present this.

Six Billion people at anytime, at any moment. Millions being born, countless people have allready died. And God knows all of them. Every choice, every sadness every victory. Every experience that none of us can know or even begin to comprehend, God has experienced with us, and feels us, and loves each and everyone of those human beings not despite of these choices not because of these choices, but because God created us, and is present in every choice we make, wether we acknowledge it or not.

That brings me great comfort, great joy, it makes me feel special and loved, and it makes me feel holy, and a part of the whole.