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9

The Wish To Matter Beyond The Household

Soul Urge 9what your heart wants when nobody is asking.

What you want, when nobody is asking, is for your existence to have registered somewhere past your own street. You want to have been part of something larger than your comfort — a wrong made smaller, a person who got through because you were there, work that will still be doing good when your name has come off it. Ordinary success feels thin to you and always has.

What feeds it is contact. Not a donation and not a strong opinion, but the particular tiredness of an afternoon spent with actual people whose lives changed slightly for it. Specific good, delivered by hand.

The counterfeit is the cause as identity. Feeling deeply about suffering is available from your sofa and it mimics the real thing closely, so you may become well informed, permanently heartbroken, and quietly inactive.

Starved, this becomes a diffuse sadness plus a habit of being generous with everyone except the four people who live with you. You give the world your best hours and your family the residue. Correct it by choosing something small and finite and staying with it for years — and by letting the people nearest you receive the same warmth you extend to strangers.

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