Thought Processes p3
When you are with someone, your attention is focused on them and everyone else you know takes a back seat in your mind. The same thing happens with places. It is almost as if everywhere else doesn’t really exist until you get there. This is what it is like for an animal, and it is only our intellect that tells us that other places and people continue in our absence. The problem arises when we do things and make decisions with people in one place that are incompatible with other people in another place.
February 10th, 2008 at 7:01 pm
OK/GOOD
February 21st, 2008 at 7:02 am
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