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Understanding, tolerance, compassion and love for living together

Anonymous

April 26, 2023

Understanding, tolerance, compassion and love for living together

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I would like in 2040 for all of us to have decoded that, if anything is to change in how we live together then we need to start today with ourselves. Never ever before have we had such grand and global consensus on what needs to change and the futures we envisage and so little understanding and reflection that we need to start behaving today like the future we want to see. The new future is not going to arrive and impose itself just like that; it will be built from within and become felt and lived by all one day. This requires personal change and also sacrifice. Lots of people intellectually understand the personal change required and agree that we need it but are not willing to sacrifice anything for the 'other' even if the sacrifice is just the time they take to understand 'the other'. They give up easily and early as soon as there is any kind of discomfort. So, everyone wants to live in a better world, but people carry on being disrespectful and nasty, and if not these, then simply too self-absorbed and centered in their own realities of material well-being and consumerism to care for one another and actually do something about it, show it in ways that are not even social-media friendly. If we don't change ourselves for real and for good to become more understanding, tolerant and compassionate, any future we envisage no matter the technologies and innovation, will be unlivable.

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