"Cooperation"

"Crossroads". This film provokes so many thoughts for so many different topics going on currently in our international society. Every person has their own different perspective on life and the world we live in because each person has seen and experienced different things. This film showed many different perspectives and left my brain swirling with the need for answers. But their are no specific answers. My knowledge and answers are not going to change the world. What will change the world is everyone's knowledge coming together. The world is a puzzle. Every piece is the economic, environmental, geopolitical, social, and technological knowledge between the billions of people in the world, and when we can cooperate, brainstorm, and make changes together, that is how the world puzzle will be completed.

Just like what was talked about during the film, a person's perspective depends on the perspective of others. We are dependent on group environments. "We are happy in groups, sad in groups. We get fat in groups, we quit smoking in groups. We are what our environment is." So if this is true, why are we constantly competing with each other? Why do we have the "Have more - Be more" attitude? People have become more greedy always wanting to be at the top. But yet nobody will ever be to the top because there will always be somebody with more. What is the value of one puzzle piece? Without the rest of the puzzle it is unvaluable. My favorite quote out of the film is "...it is more beneficial to feed your enemy instead of fight them." We all need to work together, we all need to cooperate, we all need to put our piece into the puzzle, because once the puzzle is finished, its beautiful. Once the mess of all the pieces and colors are put together, many questions will be answered. The purpose, the result, the teamwork, will all pay off to create a beautiful place for everyone.

Be unique. Find what you can do and do it. Hug trees. Be your own independent piece of the puzzle. Cooperate. Work together. Educate every person you meet. Educate our young people who are hidden behind video games and television screens. Educate yourself.  In order to finish the puzzle, in order to change the world, we will need every single piece.