CHAPTER 29
Connecting with Others Connects You with You
Just as the wave cannot exist for itself, but is ever a part of the heaving surface of the ocean, so must I never live my life for itself, but always in the experience which is going on around me.
—ALBERT SCHWEITZER
I don’t know about you, but I’ve been sentimental about time since I was 10 years old. I remember, clearly, being nine and moving into my tenth birthday, and to me, it seemed such a huge thing: to be 10 years old, the big double digits and three years away from manhood. Even then, I felt my life altering in some mysterious and even ominous way. Ever since, I’ve felt melancholy about another year passing, and the mystery that is my unfolding life.
As I’ve gotten older and I begin ...
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