If I’m angry all the time & isolated thinking my ideas are exceptional or my pain is exceptional, I’m not seeing how our struggles are very much unexceptional which is an incredibly liberating realization. We’re in this together. There are so many people who are already doing this that we can learn from. We can share ideas as partners rather than seek to preach to someone in a top-down dynamic where we consider ourselves the “more aware ones”. We can collaborate & explore new ways of being or practice reconnecting to innate collectivist old ways of being with many different people. The question is are we doing what we can do on our end to create the best possibility of us finding such equitable, reciprocal relationships?

"We are so colonized by a culture that insists that individual aspiration, appetite, and satisfaction are the hallmarks of well-being. We are so colonized by that idea that it has produced a culture that is itself not well.
We have reached a point where, instead of thinking about where we are, either locally or globally, as a living, interconnected, and interdependent system, we think of it rather as a stockpile of resources for feeding our own repetitive scenarios of growth and dominance. The only well-being is interbeing. "