Powder

When I woke up this morning, “Powder” was on. That’s just the movie I needed to see. A young man who is different that grows up in a small community of backwards-thinking small-minded people. They don’t understand him and as human nature dictates, they fear and hate him. Boys his age would tease and torment him to make themselves feel normal. He is able to “see inside people” and is a total empath. At one point, he allows a hunter to know what the deer he just shot feels as it is dying. A scene I’m sure PETA applauded and the NRA scorned.
At one point Lindsey, the only person in the movie who is not afraid of him and is curious about his differences, asks him what he sees when he looks at people.

“....how beautiful they really are. And that there's no need to hide, or lie. And then its possible to talk to someone without any lies. With no sarcasms, no deceptions, no exaggerations, or any of the other things people use to confuse the truth.”

We all have the same abilities that Powder had to some degree. We just need to see past the fear and embrace the connection we all have with the universe.