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I look out the window at the flow of buildings, people, cars, parks passing by, and I think: how beautiful it all is! How much is encoded in nature, and how blind we humans truly are. We walk the same streets every day, we pass the same faces again and again, yet none of it touches us—it's simply the ordinary texture of another day. We've trained ourselves not to see: the autumn parks, the spring gardens. No—for us these are merely "things." Instead we laugh, condemn, insult, convince ourselves we are builders when really we are only demolishing.

We sort people into categories: beautiful and ugly, weak and strong, rich and poor, vagrant and foreigner. Does this make us happier? Or is it some twisted way of burying our own fractures—the ones we carry in our bodies and minds? We claim we want to build, yet every single day we dismantle what little we've made, stone by stone. We point fingers at everyone but ourselves. We hide behind painted smiles and live by that poisoned wisdom: keep your friends close and your enemies closer.

I watch and wonder: how can we be so utterly blind? We believe we see everything, that we've protected ourselves from pain—as if pain were the only real danger. We speak without listening and judge without hearing. We shut our eyes to avoid the truth we deny every morning. We rage at small things and weep for nothing. Is this what people call a meaningful life? Is this living?

The experts tell us man is the highest creature—capable of conscious love, of thought, of deliberate action. Look around. Is it true? Or has humanity been asking this question forever without ever finding the answer? Three desires rule every life: money, fame, and power—each one trailing its shadow: manipulation, cruelty, malice. The tragedy is that we don't see what we're paying. Everything costs something, the good and the bad alike. But the true tragedy—the one that cuts deepest—is that with each step down this path, we lose pieces of ourselves. We trade away our hearts without even knowing it.

If someone believes this is a life worth living, I wish them luck. I pray that one day they truly see. Because life is something rare and radiant—a beautiful moment that only a few have learned to hold and truly feel. And the only path to understanding what life means is simple: open your mind and heart to everything around you. Drop your defenses. Stop thinking. Just feel.