What it means to be Somebody.

To be somebody means to be important. It means to take up space in this world. It means to exist, and it means to matter. Everyone is entitled to life’s greatest experiences, rights, and benefits from those things which consist of:

• Love (genuine affection from the environment around you)

• Liberty (freedom to act liberally and to live without fear for righteousness or normal doings)

• Respect (treated with love and care, not enforcing or inflicting, valued beyond measure)

• Family (people who always accept you no matter the circumstance)

• Relationships (deep ongoing connection with other people)

Whether you a doctor or a patient, a manager or an employee, a teacher or a student, rich or poor, young or old, ignorant or informed (whatever contrast you can think of), your life is no greater than anyone else’s life. We can’t think of ourselves as more than an individual neither can we view ourselves as less than an individual.

No matter what we accomplish in this life we can never become more important than our neighbors. All life is precious an invaluable. There is no price, there is no scale, and there is no thing to measure the values of a man’s life. God created us all to be equal.

Ultimately, our belief in the equal value of all human life is rooted in our faith in the supreme being we call God and his divine objective truth given unto us in a book we call “The Holy Bible”. God created us all and he gave us our own minds to freely choose what we want in life. He even offers salvation to all people which we can have if we ask him and if we choose to obey his word. Whether we pursue salvation or not, all people are still to be treated with dignity and respect.

Gen. 1:27, 1 Peter 2:17, Isaiah 40:6,7, 1 Thess. 3:12, 5:14,15, Acts 17:26, John 3:16.

There are a lot of things that can separate us and they rightfully do, but when it comes to the value and worth of an individual, there is no measure. We all are important. We all matter. We all are somebody.

By: Titus Duncan II