Congratulations, by the Way

Author:George Saunders [Saunders, George]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978-0-8129-9628-9
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
Published: 2014-04-22T06:00:00+00:00

Because kindness, it turns out, is hard—it starts out all rainbows and puppy dogs and expands to include … well, everything.

One thing in our favor: Some of this “becoming kinder” happens naturally, with age. It might be a simple matter of attrition: As we get older, we come to see how useless it is to be selfish—how illogical, really. We come to love certain other people and are thereby counterinstructed in our own centrality. We get our butts kicked by real life, and people come to our defense, and help us, and we learn that we’re not separate, and don’t want to be. We see people near and dear to us dropping away, and are gradually convinced that maybe we too will drop away (someday, a long time from now). Most people, as they age, become less selfish and more loving. I think this is true. The great Syracuse poet Hayden Carruth said, in a poem written near the end of his life, that he was mostly Love, now.

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