Loving humanity can solve every problem in the world.
But to love humanity, you first have to see it clearly.
Human beings are extraordinarily complex creatures. A person can be confident or insecure, humble or proud, loyal or a traitor…
And the society built out of human beings is more complex still, more various.
Yet, more than that, human beings are lovable creatures. Everything they reveal — the good and the bad alike — is part of what this creature is. And if the bad is part of being human too, then to love the bad is, just the same, to love humanity itself.
It’s an abstract idea, and not an easy one to accept: love humanity — all of humanity.
That person hurt me, but I love them. That person betrayed me, but I love them. That person deceived me, but I love them.
Not for anything they brought into my life, but because I love them exactly as they are — no good, no bad.
I love them because I know this is simply what human beings are: rich and varied, forever shifting — and how wondrous that is.
The smallest individual holds mysteries as unfathomable as those the vast universe lays before me.
But I don’t need to work out why they treated me the way they did. I only need to love humanity.
Love without conditions is the greatest force in the universe.