在我們的生命中，所遇到的每一個人，都是我們的心肝寶貝。Every person we meet in our lives is our treasure.
People often say that the biggest treasures in our life are the people that surround us. Our friends and family can be a big source of inspiration for us, and they can fill our lives with wonder and joy. We may not know it, but they are the gems that fill our life’s treasure chest every day. Treasure Island《金銀島》 and “Treasure Planet”〈星銀島〉are two acclaimed works created for children that are based on the concept of treasure hunting. Treasure Island is a popular novel by Robert Louis Stevenson that narrates the journey of Jim Hawkins, and his quest to find some treasure. On the other hand, “Treasure Planet” is an animated science fiction movie adapted from Treasure Island, and it is based on the journey of a young boy who travels on a pirate’s spaceship.
It’s no secret that relationships can become fragile if we take all of the political, religious, gender, race, environmental, and other controversial issues on Facebook or other social media. We love social media for its connecting capabilities, yet it provides insults and reveals information we may not want to know about our friends and loved ones. Sharing beliefs is a vital and fruitful part of relationships. It bonds us, stretches us, empowers us, and helps us to understand one another. We’re seeing beloved friends and even close family members who we have bonded with over coffee, card games, parties, girls’ nights, and holidays. We truly want peace and treasure our people. Yet, it should start in our personal lives.
Facebook is our own personal stage where we tell our stories and share our beliefs. It sounds lovely, but the downfall is that many of us are beating our beliefs over each other’s heads. If we are fighting to win people over to be a part of the change we want to see in the world, this just isn’t going to work. Telling others how right we are and how wrong they are serves to lessen our cause, and will forever fall on deaf ears. We are perpetuating a dark cycle, a cycle filled with the exact actions we are ultimately fighting against.
If our goal is to unite, we can no longer bring our neighbors down for our own causes, and should instead begin raising each other up! It looks peace, love, and acceptance for all mankind if we start in our environment with those nearest to us, including people we disagree with. Imagine that if we were to all start dealing out the kindness, acceptance, and respect that we know all humans deserve, even in our own, little communities, we are doing a service by offering the people right in front of us.
When we notice our friends supporting different principles than we do, it’s now common practice for us to walk away from them without question. Because we have deep-rooted histories with our families and friends, we believe that the place where our stories have landed us is the only prime reality out there, and no other spot is worth exploring. However, at the heart of each of our stories, we need to treasure our people, to seek to understand each other’s stories, and to realize that we might even hold the same values given their circumstances.
We have to see the good in each other. If we can let our pride slip away enough to shake off the non-acceptance of our friends, it will be much easier to expose the good in them. I know for a fact that people in my life who think very differently than I, are at their heart’s core, wonderful, worthwhile, kind, and endearing. They are made up of much more than just a set of beliefs. They are their laughter, their joy, their funny jokes, their awful jokes, their impressive cooking skills, their rocking parenting, their goofy dance moves, their child-like innocence, their creativity, their passions, their smiles, their frowns, their humanity, and their beautiful stories. In order to see and hear the hearts of our people, sometimes we have to walk away from the computer and toward the person. Facebook only shows us a fraction of people, but when we are with them, we get to see so much more of who they are. Real life discussions culminate into love and appreciation for each other much smoother than they do online. We can look into people’s eyes, hear their voices, see their expressions, and above all, know just how deserving they are of our respect. It’s easy to express harsh feelings on social media, but to share who we are in person is a much more challenging and rewarding experience! In conclusion, the best thing we can do to keep friends and treasure our people is to look for the beauty in each and every human we encounter, to have grace with them, to be ready to offer up forgiveness at any time, to try to love and accept them no matter what, and especially, to stop believing our road is the highest.

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