Let's open our eyes and see the person within

Growing up in a country mining town, I was surrounded by racism, sexism and bigotry.  It would have been easy for me to have adopted this way of ‘thinking’, but thankfully I didn’t.

I am blessed to have met some of the most amazing, beautiful, open-minded people from all corners of the Earth, who have shared their cultures, their thoughts, their food, their clothes, their friends, their families and their stories with me.  My life is so much richer for it.

When we open ourselves up to the world, and the people in it, we start to understand others, and they understand us.  We shouldn’t ‘see’ people first by colour, race, gender, religion, nationality, etc.  We should first see them as a person.