This is from my blog www.blissanddrumming.com.

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How delicate the human being. Our minds keep us moving, thinking of the future, caught up in the past, so we don’t even notice how are bodies are reacting to all the stimuli. We don’t even notice that we are tightening up, stress that keeps us strung like a big rubber band. There is social pressure, economic pressure, stress from the news, the big picture, the small annoyances of moving through the world. Our delicate systems get wound up, our minds race faster and faster, our bodies absorb and twist and contain it all until we break.

I want to remember this. I will be empathetic to every person I meet. What a battle they might be fighting.