Am I a murder?

This is a memorable text conversation I had with a close friend of mine, and thought it was too awesome not to share.

Friend:  What do you consider as the beginning of human life?
Me: 200,000 years ago, when the first Homo Sapein Fossil was found.

Friend: I mean what defines a human as being alive?
Me: Well physical is easy but mental and emotional are difficult to know. Do you feel dead?

Friend: True such a hard question? No but I wonder if I am a murder..
Me: Friend, we give life and kill things everyday. When we eat, we are killers, when we breath we destroy oxygen, when we walk we kill microscopic life.
When we exhale we give life to CO2, when we die our bodies give life to the ground. All of us give and take. No one is higher than the other. <3

Friend: Thank you
Me: Your welcome <3 



It's easy to judge others for their deeds, however we have committed the same ones every day in different ways. If you believe in past lives then it's likely you have done everything everyone has done.
If you don't believe this then you have had thoughts of killing, lust, envey at least once. Thoughts are worse than actions because they are the roots of creation.

The next time you want to judge someone for ill reasons remember this:

Are they endangering you?
Will you be hurt by them?

Probably not.

So love and have compassion because you don't know if you wouldn't have done what they did if you were born and raised with the exact same experiences.