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 Where do we start?
...at the beginning.

Everything you bring to the start line can be used to either:
- confirm your bias so that you remain set in your ways, or
- confirm that you always have more to learn and so your journey becomes a marathon.
The start line may even be one of many.

My belief is that the world already gave you everything you need (read as: "without humans negatively affecting the lives of other humans we would have more ability to live with more purpose- there will always be shit human beings"); humans have interrupted and damaged what the world has given us and yet, we exist.
What that harmony looks like (between our plane of existence and us existing on it) is yet to be seen.

Do we continue believing we know better or do we learn about the world, form a connection with it and finally begin the process of rebuilding?