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The sentiment had struck me as important: that love changes, hides, soars and reinvents itself from one moment to the next according to the caprices of our fitful states of mind. An I love you, therefore, is a statement of feeling right now even if it feels like it should be a forever.
The single most valuable human trait, the one quality every schoolchild and adult should be taught to nurture, is, quite simply, kindness.
Tracing a path from childhood pleasures to adult skills is an exercise in hindsight and pattern-finding similar to the way most of history is made: in the light of the present we pick and choose events which lead most conveniently to the desired end point of the here and now; we then mistake that all-too-convenient narrative for truth.
