We absolutely want to be liked … we do want to feel loved. The issue isn’t apathy toward other people. The issue is that people are malleable and affected and, often, false. So, what delights one individual on one particular day in one particular circumstance can cause utter mayhem, outrage, or rejection in the same person in the same circumstance on a different day. It takes thousands and thousands of experiences to even begin to assemble a pattern that may lead us toward inclusion. And that’s just too many maybes and maybe nots—too many subjectives by which to live your life (which would be
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