每日原则：你的未来取决于你的视角

你在一生中取得什么样的成就，将取决于你如何看待事物，以及你关心什么人、什么东西（你的家庭、社区、国家、人类、整个生态系统，等等）。你必须决定，你将在多大程度上把他人的利益置于自身利益之上，以及你将以这样的方式对待哪些人，因为你将不断遇到迫使你做出上述抉择的情况。

也许这样对你来说太深奥了，但你还是会有意识或下意识地做出这样的抉择，而且这些抉择将是很重要的。

就个人而言，我现在发现，拥抱现实、从自然的视角俯视自身、做宇宙中微不足道的一小部分，是件很美妙的事。我的本能目标和有意识的目标都只是进化，用自己的生命和特性，以某种微弱的方式为进化做贡献。同时，我最喜欢的东西（我的工作和人际关系）是我的驱动力。由此，我发现现实和自然的规律都是美好的——包括我以及一切东西将会如何分解、重组，尽管在情感上，我很难接受将要与我关心的东西最终分离。

Where you go in life will depend on how you see things and who and what you feel connected to (your family, your community, your country, mankind, the whole ecosystem, everything). You will have to decide to what extent you will put the interests of others above your own, and which others you will choose to do so for. That’s because you will regularly encounter situations that will force you to make such choices.

While such decisions might seem too erudite for your taste, you will make them either consciously or subliminally, and they will be very important.

For me personally, I now find it thrilling to embrace reality, to look down on myself through nature’s perspective, and to be an infinitesimally small part of the whole. My instinctual and intellectual goal is simply to evolve and contribute to evolution in some tiny way while I’m here and while I am what I am. At the same time, the things I love most—my work and my relationships—are what motivate me. So, I find how reality and nature work, including how I and everything will decompose and recompose, beautiful—though emotionally I find the separation from those I care about difficult to appreciate.