Are we all connected?

   This picture is drawn by De Es Schwertberger. The painting is called "Connection." The painting is showing two boys hugging and their head is connected and there's a light shining in the part where they're connected. That shows lights only shine when people are connected. The poem No Man Is An Island is John Donne's work. Donne indicates that one person doesn't make the world but it's just a part of the world. It's like a puzzle, one piece doesn't make the whole it's just a part of the whole. Donne says 'if a clod be washed away b the sea, Europe is the less' meaning when even the smallest part of the earth is washed away everyone suffers and is 'diminished'. 


  Our world is connected but, people who should be connected are not connected. When we see a beggar we often treat them like dirt and think that they are not one of us but, they're one of us who hopes to be the part of the whole. You could just make a small donation but, not pitying them, you must donate with your heart reminding him or her that they're one of us too. It's not just the beggars but in my school too. When I see the cleaner ladies and the guards I never gave them a smile instead I told myself that "they're just cleaner ladies why do I have to smile?" or "they're just the guards why do I have to smile?." But they are so important to us because without them we could have a dirty school or a school without any protection. They are also the part of the whole too but I mistreated them. I was foolish to mistreat them because that makes the whole shake or become unstable. "And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee". This says everyone will eventually die, don't ask me who will die."  "Any man's death diminishes me", our ecosystem depends on each other. If one species disappears, others will disappear because they don't have anything to depend on, and soon everything will be destroyed and we human will get effected by that. If something disappear it won't straight away effect us, humans but, it will be critical to us one day. We are all interconnected and interdependent. We need to stop things disappearing or else our life will never be stable but weak and vulnerable. We humans don't really appreciate what we have and just ignore it. The ignorance is like a wind which is trying to shake our life blocks so that the blocks will collapse. We need something to block the wind which is a small hope from everyone, perhaps a smile, perhaps a thank you, perhaps standing up for people when they need help. It shows that we're connected.