My dad finished chewing something and then put his fork down and looked at me. 'The longer I do my job, ' he said. 'the more I realize that humans lack good mirrors. It's so hard for anyone to show us how we look, and so hard for us to show anyone how we feel.'' That is really lovely, ' my mom said. I liked that they liked each other. 'But isn't it also that on some fundamental level we find it difficult to understand that other people are human beings in the same way that we are? We idealize them as gods or dismiss them as animals.'' True. Consciousness makes for poor windows, too. I don't think I'd ever thought about it quite that way. John Green
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