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Spreading joy is one of the most important things you can do.
This isn’t a self help article. It’s an “other help” article. As I see it, we are all in this together so when we help others, we help ourselves. We will be better off in a world where we care about and help each other. It’s tempting to let the other guy go first — why should I stick my neck out when the other guy might screw me? Or at least keep score to make sure you are being used.
Keeping score is a mistake. That’s looking at things the wrong way. That’s living in an atomized universe, where we are all separate entities who happen to cross paths. But that’s not how it is. We are all pretty much variations on the same creature, subject to similar basic experiences. Those who try to rule over others, or dominate, or take more than their share are not victorious. They are failures and fools. They miss out big time. Yet, we envy them when we should pity them.
This is hard to believe. This sounds like surrender to the big bad guys. And yet, I’m dedicated to stopping the stupid actions of the big bad guys. I want to save us from them. And I want to save them from themselves.
We all enter and exit the world essentially the same way. What differs is how we behave during that brief interval. To really understand how this works, look at dogs…
