Love is the greatest wealth

No matter what your color, race or creed, I love you. Not only do I enjoy loving everyone in this world whom I've had the pleasure of meeting, but also those yet unmet. This is the real reason we are placed here in the first place. Not to become the richest person with the greatest monetary wealth, but to become one of the wealthiest as measured by how much we have loved and can be loved.

I don't care if you are rich or poor. If you dress in fine clothing or rags. I love you. If all religious leaders taught us nothing more than how to love one another, then there would be peace and harmony in all parts of the world.

We would not seek to destroy each other, or tell each other we are not living life as we should. Instead, we would be helping to feed and cloth the poor. Heal the sick and shelter those in need. Too much time is spent on hatred and fighting, when instead we should be trying to embrace each others' differences -- enjoying these differences as a new, sweet spice being tried for the first time.

You have a mind, and you also have a heart. Isn't it time we started thinking and feeling for ourselves?

I embrace your differences, as I would embrace you if ever we should meet. Love one another! There will be peace on earth.

MELANIE BUDIARTO Wrightsville, U.S.