Freeway Humanity

Driving to work this morning, I started counting cars on the freeway. Next, I started to look around at the people in the cars next to me, and I thought, everyone has a story. All of these people are headed somewhere. They have hopes, dreams, opinions, cares, and worries, and for a brief moment in time, we are all sharing the same freeway. It is good to remember that it isn’t always about us. If we can be divided, we can also find connection in our similarities — which are greater than we think, if we take the time to consider. The specifics of our situations differ, but bonds can be discovered through “Shared Humanity” — the recognition that beneath all our differences, every person carries the same fundamental experiences of longing, struggle, hope, and meaning.

If you could see the story of one person in a car next to you on the freeway, whose story do you think would surprise you the most — and what would that surprise reveal about your own assumptions?