How much I'd always envied the tight life of voles. The hidey hole was happiness.

Sam Lipsyte
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We all wish we could be like voles. They are able to (almost) always find shelter and safety no matter what life throws at them. Yet, the secret of their life is to know when it’s time to hide away. They know when it’s time to be scared yet choose to remain calm and act as if nothing is wrong.

Instead of running for cover (like us), they lie low. To be like them, we must learn to lie low at times when the world tries to intimidate us into doing something that our inner self doesn’t want us to do or shouldn’t do.

Source: The Subject Steve

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