"Remember that the dullest and most uninteresting person you can talk to may one day be a creature which, if you say it now, you would be strongly tempted to worship, or else a horror and a corruption such as you now meet, if at all, only in a nightmare. All day long we are, in some degree, helping each other to one or other of these destinations. It is in the light of these overwhelming possibilities, it is with the awe and the circumspection proper to them, that we should conduct all our dealings with one another, all friendships, all loves, all play, all politics. There are no ordinary people. You have never talked to a mere mortal. Nations, cultures, arts, civilisations,--these are mortal, and their life is to ours as the life of a gnat. But it is immortals whom we joke with, work with, marry, snub, and exploit--immortal horrors or everlasting splendours."
-C.S. Lewis, from 'The Weight of Glory'
I have always, always wanted to be a person that can look at someone else, and no matter what, see the good in them instead of bringing up the bad (even if only in their head). I wish to be that person that, when you talk to them, you know that you are loved and important and crucial to this world in some way. The people that can do this are the people that I admire and respect, and I like to think that they had to work to become this way, maybe because it gives me more hope to get myself there.
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