No one cares about your life

It is fear that leads to this egocentric behavior where it seems like “no one cares about me and I don’t care about them”.

When fear is dismantled, this wall of egocentricity crumbles. One actually starts to think about strangers in more and more loving ways.

One way of looking at if is to see selfishness as our world of understanding, we can only act in the way we understand our own selves in relationship to others. Limited understanding leads to limited handling of a situation.

I’m not saying that people who don’t think a lot about strangers in loving kind ways and recognizing them with kind subtle gestures or even full investment in taking a conversation with strangers to make them feel safe and loved and needed, I’m not saying that not being this way is horrible necessarily. We are all on our own paths and we can’t deal with an unlimited amount of data, we have to be selective and work things out as best as we can, but I really do know that our selfishness can become wider and more expansive, so wide that includes the interests of strangers you walk by on the street.

In fact, I really do believe that this particular evolution, where people outside of family becomes more and more like an actual family, consistent family, is the way towards a globalist utopia.

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