This Is Water
One of the best things I’ve ever read on living a compassionate life. It talks about how we intrinsically see ourselves as the center of the universe, and how that should not blind us to the universe around us. It kind of explains a lot of the angry people that I have met.
There are these two young fish swimming along and they happen to meet an older fish swimming the other way, who nods at them and says “Morning, boys. How’s the water?” And the two young fish swim on for a bit, and then eventually one of them looks over at the other and goes “What the hell is water?”
David Foster Wallace, “This Is Water“
