When we are down here, going about things, we get heavily attached to things around us, and it’s easy for them to affect us: our family, politics, and even the soccer team we support.
When we take a bird’s eye view, we realize that we all are more similar than we think and are all connected.
Please don’t waste your life on petty things and make life harder than it has to be. Look at the bigger picture.
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