6 billion others

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Since 2003 French artist Yann Arthus Bertrand has filmed an increible human quilt of 5000 stories from all over the world.

About 40 questions were asked to each person: What were your children's dreams? What is joy for you? What is your biggest fear? Do you feel free? Do you believe in god? When is the last time you cried? "Are you happy?" ''How do you define love?" or "What would you like to change about your life?"

Some of the exhibit (currently on display in a museum in Paris) is on the Net. As the creator of the show notes: "In this globalized world when we all depend on each other, we have to listen to each other," he said. "There is no message: it's the people who have something to say."

I happened to click on the question: When is the last time you cried? What range of responses. One woman in India talked about her alcoholic husband, a British senior talks about a sick son, a middle-aged Syrian man says he cries on his birthday and doesn't know exactly why. Each person opens their heart and lets you in.

Thinking about it, I can't precisely remember when I last cried. Definitely in the last month...probably talking on the phone with a friend. During one of my doctor's visits when he bends my toe hard.