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What we need to realize is that the residents of the universe look vastly different from one another. Not just on a person to person basis, but within the all-encompassing cosmos. We look a lot different from our closest genetic relative, the chimpanzee, yet we are the same as the chimpanzee. We are the same as a banana, as a gardening tool, as a distant meteor. We can take a scientific look at an atom of hydrogen and an atom of carbon and have no problem describing the difference between not only these two atoms, but between these two atoms and ourselves. The truth is, however, that there is little difference between us and the atoms. The elements of the periodic table make up literally everything in the known universe. While it is a more difficult position to take, I propose that we start focusing on how similar everything is, and how we are all one. Not just "we" as the human species, but the cosmic we: life and non-life everywhere in the universe, incredibly large and infintismally small, amazingly beautiful and all part of a single universe. Ours.