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Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment. —Buddhist quote
I had nowhere to go. Once upon a time there were people I could have called. It’s amazing how friends can slip through your fingers, how your social network can vanish like it never existed. If you don’t have a family, if you live in a city designed so that you don’t need to connect with anyone, and you drive everywhere, so there is nowhere to walk and nod hello, so you can do all your shopping in soulless supermarkets with blank-faced teenagers scanning your groceries while they look right through
Friendship is the only cure for hatred, the only guarantee of peace. —Buddhist
Nothing was permanent: The Buddhists knew what they were talking about.
