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Exclusion
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(Beware of Strangers)
As children, we are taught to beware of strangers, to refrain from approaching them.
As we grow older, we learn that no one is stranger than those we thought we’d known all our lives.
We learn that a stranger may carry more empathy, and understand us more deeply, and that affections from a stranger may be more sincere.
So, I ask: Can humanity and strangeness be synonymous? Could we say, 'I am a stranger; therefore I am'?
Can we truly feel alive without strange things, s
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― سرطان في كل مكان [Cancer Everywhere]
― سرطان في كل مكان [Cancer Everywhere]
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As soon as somebody starts talking about times when they felt excluded, betrayed, or wronged, stop and listen. When somebody is talking to you about pain in their life, even in those cases when you may think their pain is performative or exaggerated, it’s best not to try to yank the conversations back to your frame. Your first job is to stay within the other person’s standpoint to more fully understand how the world looks to them. Your next job is to encourage them to go into more depth about wh
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― How to Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen
― How to Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen
