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RE: What are you contributing to this moment?
I'm at the point in my life that there's always going to be more than one value to move forward because they're all worthy of my time and attention.
Obviously, it's tough to embody all of them, so working on them is incremental, moment by moment, as you say.
So much of who we are is reflected in those who are around us, shaping and growing us as we shape and grow them. Even the lightest of touches leaves something changed.
Working on oneself is not done in a vacuum, so there will always be someone else's ideas and desires to consider. Selflessness ends up being among the most refining of crucibles.
Thanks for contributing this important perspective. Yes, we are social animals so we grow primarily within relationship. Whether relationship to other people or to the natural world, we only reveal who we are in that context. It's easy to think we've embodied our ideals until we come into contact with someone asking more of us than we wish to give. Not that we necessarily have to put their wants before our own, but we see in how we navigate such things what we really value more than with the ideas we have when we're by ourselves.