“Every time you victimized someone,” I said, “you were victimizing yourself. Every act of kindness you’ve done, you’ve done to yourself. Every happy and sad moment ever experienced by any human was, or will be, experienced by you.”
It is tough to conceptualize the complexity and beauty of those around us. Everyone lives their own full life. Reading this short story got me one step closer.
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