Before the man lost his sight, he read this story in a magazine: a group of explorers came upon a community of parrots speaking the language of a society that had been wiped out in a recent catastrophe. Astonished by their discovery, they put the parrots in cages and sent them home so that linguists could record what remained of the lost language. But the parrots, already traumatized by the devastation they had recently witnessed, died on the way. The man feels a great fraternity with those birds. He feels he carries, like them, a shredded inheritance, and he is too concussed to pass anything on. Rana Dasgupta
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This quote is a great one to share whenever someone asks you how you feel about the world around you. People tend to forget that we are all connected in one way or another. We can all feel the same pain and hurt, and when we do, it's important to try to make others feel better. This quote reminds us that when things go wrong, we can't let it make us feel bad for ourselves. We have to remove the negative from our lives and focus on the good things that we have in common with everyone else.

Source: Solo

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