I live in my own fantasy world (we all do more or less). We base our lives upon the dangerous, disastrous, tempting, self-defeating assumption that how we live and what we believe is how all others live and believe or should.
It comes as a barely survivable shock to recognize that many, maybe most others, do not think like us, do not wish us well, may even plot our demise as they pursue means and ends so altered from our means and ends.
That they diverge from our expectations about how life should turn out is a given. Conforming to our world view just ain't going to happen!
I was sharing this moment of clarity with Jane and here was her reply: "The greatest gift that we can give anyone is to listen to them, really listen to them." Amen.
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