We are not mad. We are human. We want to love and someone must forgive us for the paths we take. The paths are many and dark. And we are hardened and cruel. And our journey is really funny because for the first like, four or five years I had email at the bottom of every email was this quote by Leonard Cohen, which I thought encapsulated.

Everything that we do, you know, we're not crazy. We're human, and we want love and we want to love but the tools we have make us hardened and cruel in our journey. So I'm in my courses all the time. I say what do you want to say on your tombstone? And you want to say, wealthiest guy in cemetery or he was right, flew to the moon or owned a house. No, any sane person wants to say Beloved, right?

So if you think about that, my understanding is that as sentient beings, our primary desire is to be loved unconditionally. And we've only been given tools by our society to gain loves conditionally, because we go to Ivy League schools because we drive cool cars, because this and that. And so what Leonard Cohen is saying here is that someone must forgive us, because the tools we have make us assholes essentially. And so, you know, I don't know I just think that if you really look at someone's desires, and I make a joke all the time about Abraham Maslow's hierarchy of needs, because I think you know that self actualization Do you want to say self actualized on your tombstone? No You want to stay below. So yeah, this is just a much more eloquent way to say everything that I teach.