If it's naive to think we can all get along, then it is equally naive to think we can not. It takes the same amount of effort either way. What we feel and think about one another is all happening within ourselves. Well that's obvious! So then the path to responsibility is illuminated: we act on what is within ourselves, to see it externalized. We share the moment and history with each other by choice. You may not have chosen to cross paths with a stranger, but you chose to be where you are when it happened.
Self awareness entails acceptance of such a responsibility. Our actions and reactions are made by the individual; us and us alone. Once we integrate ourselves into the set, we can change the setting. By changing the setting, we alter the set. With self awareness we can discover anything that's possible to do. Once the discovery of what we *can* do is made, our path splits into possibilities.
Whichever paths we take is our personal choice.
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