There’s a special beauty to people of different and even opposing groups helping one another. It demonstrates a triumph of the individual over the collective, and it is a fundamental pillar of human progress.

The man in this photo is doing far more than benevolently helping an old woman, as praise-worthy as that may be: He’s acting as an independent person and overcoming group affiliation.

This kind of behavior both liberates us and sows life into the world.

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So, prior to going back to the mundane, please meditate a minute or two on being a free moral agent in the world, unbound by accidents of birth or geography. You may love your family and appreciate your location ever so much, but they are not you.