Love, love, love this one, Srini. You're such a good writer, and what you write so often is what I think, too. Thank you, my friend, for this one. It's dear to me. I often say that the one gift of being good and wanting to do good is that you live a life sitting inside the domain of goodness. That domain, I think, has a certain overhead view that you can't get anywhere else. It doesn't feel angry. It doesn't feel slighted. It feels like pared-down simplicity.
For me, I sometimes see that overhead view from the perspective of my last minutes here. In those last minutes, I figure I'll be glad I experienced that domain. We die regardless. Might as well die having known what the logic of goodness is. To my mind, it's occupying simple, matter-of-fact okayness such that we have the bones and the oxygen to be kind. We don't need extra, so we share where there's a deficit. This is because we feel the deficit, too, sometimes, so we know what a difference those extras given freely can make.
Who knows? I surely don't. But it feels good to veer towards peace.
My word. Thank you so much for this, Steph. I am very happy it spoke to you. You have given me a lot of food for thought, too. People like you make the world a truly special place and honestly worth living for. I am doing well. I hope you’re too.
Love, love, love this one, Srini. You're such a good writer, and what you write so often is what I think, too. Thank you, my friend, for this one. It's dear to me. I often say that the one gift of being good and wanting to do good is that you live a life sitting inside the domain of goodness. That domain, I think, has a certain overhead view that you can't get anywhere else. It doesn't feel angry. It doesn't feel slighted. It feels like pared-down simplicity.
For me, I sometimes see that overhead view from the perspective of my last minutes here. In those last minutes, I figure I'll be glad I experienced that domain. We die regardless. Might as well die having known what the logic of goodness is. To my mind, it's occupying simple, matter-of-fact okayness such that we have the bones and the oxygen to be kind. We don't need extra, so we share where there's a deficit. This is because we feel the deficit, too, sometimes, so we know what a difference those extras given freely can make.
Who knows? I surely don't. But it feels good to veer towards peace.
I hope you're well, my friend. Be well. :-)
My word. Thank you so much for this, Steph. I am very happy it spoke to you. You have given me a lot of food for thought, too. People like you make the world a truly special place and honestly worth living for. I am doing well. I hope you’re too.
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