Most familiar animal species can be easily _ and anthropomorphically _ categorized. The faithful dog, the sly fox, the timid rabbit, the plodding tortoise. Whole industries of adult fables and children’s picture books are built on this pleasant, and often at least partially true, observation.
People? No, they are entirely different. We each contain multitudes, with any one of that internal crowd in ascendance at any moment. Moods can make us angry, happy, anxious, ambitious, lazy, and on and on when confronted with what externally appear to be the exact same circumstances.
And long-term ambitions _ fortunately _ vary an awful lot. Once we climb Maslow’s pyramid, we use our free time and energy to pursue various options at times almost incomprehensible to one another. Money, security, solitude, production, love, meaning _ and so many weird combinations of everything.
Given all that, it’s amazing we get along as well as we do. Having different goals lets many of us achieve modest success, instead of just about everyone being a loser. There are _ for humans _ many equally useful paths in the forest. Some, indeed, “less traveled by.“
So a toast to our complexity. We should be eternally grateful that you and I _ and all of “them” _ do not want the exact same thing.
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