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It's not about how much we fail to warm our hearts to others... But how much we cool towards ourselves.
In our ambition to want everything, to possess everything, to achieve everything, to have a thousand friends, we end up becoming lonely. And lonelier than ever.
It is precisely in that somewhat biblical notion, mind you, of wanting so much and not being content with what we have, that we end up losing ourselves.
I think that the real asset, the real gem, lies in realizing what we have. Being and feeling grateful for what we have. Taking ownership of that fact. What we have, and what is given to us.
Realizing that there are not many people who are important to us. But those who are, we need to recognize. We need to take care of them. To look after them. We must understand that nothing is more precious than their presence, not only for them, but also for us.
And that this is the food that would protect us more than any medicine we can buy at a pharmacy. That would heal us more than any other subterfuge we can find or pursue.
Living is quite simple. We want so much to simplify things through our immediacy and anxiety to have more and more, to produce more and better, to be better, that we end up complicating the whole process.
We get sick, we lose ourselves, and we distance ourselves not only from others but also from our own essence when we seek something that has no purpose, meaning, or goal in life.
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