Danny Miranda

And so thinking about that trajectory, I all of a sudden realized the amount of pressures that she had put on externally, that other people had put on her externally throughout her whole life. And what happened was I felt like I understood. And Blaise Pascal, who's Pascal's triangle, some people remember him, he was a mathematician and also a theologian.

He had this quote that I love, which is, to understand is to forgive. And I believe that you cannot both hate someone and understand them at the same time. And so like, if I am very angry with someone, it's become a check for me where I'm like, oh, I must not understand something.

He had this quote that I love, which is, to understand is to forgive. And I believe that you cannot both hate someone and understand them at the same time. And so like, if I am very angry with someone, it's become a check for me where I'm like, oh, I must not understand something.

He had this quote that I love, which is, to understand is to forgive. And I believe that you cannot both hate someone and understand them at the same time. And so like, if I am very angry with someone, it's become a check for me where I'm like, oh, I must not understand something.

Like there's something about them or something about their experience that has made me not understand why they do what they do. And then you have the secondary statement of most people, if you were born with the same genetics and live the same life as that person, you would see the world the same way as they do.

Like there's something about them or something about their experience that has made me not understand why they do what they do. And then you have the secondary statement of most people, if you were born with the same genetics and live the same life as that person, you would see the world the same way as they do.

Like there's something about them or something about their experience that has made me not understand why they do what they do. And then you have the secondary statement of most people, if you were born with the same genetics and live the same life as that person, you would see the world the same way as they do.

And so carried within that is this very jarring idea that what if our viewpoint of the world is something that someone else hates? entirely. And in their mind, we are wrong. But in their mind, like hard to even really get into that and like empathize with someone else's point of view to that degree.

And so carried within that is this very jarring idea that what if our viewpoint of the world is something that someone else hates? entirely. And in their mind, we are wrong. But in their mind, like hard to even really get into that and like empathize with someone else's point of view to that degree.

And so carried within that is this very jarring idea that what if our viewpoint of the world is something that someone else hates? entirely. And in their mind, we are wrong. But in their mind, like hard to even really get into that and like empathize with someone else's point of view to that degree.

But me going through that process has actually been one that I've repeated multiple times in my life when I was extremely angry with someone. And it's usually around loyalty or betrayals or things like that that happened to all humans. But when I started writing narratives around how someone experienced life

But me going through that process has actually been one that I've repeated multiple times in my life when I was extremely angry with someone. And it's usually around loyalty or betrayals or things like that that happened to all humans. But when I started writing narratives around how someone experienced life

But me going through that process has actually been one that I've repeated multiple times in my life when I was extremely angry with someone. And it's usually around loyalty or betrayals or things like that that happened to all humans. But when I started writing narratives around how someone experienced life

that would make it reasonable that they would act or behave or believe what they believe, all of a sudden, I felt like I understood. And so in a matter of a few weeks, what felt like a decade of hate and anger directed towards my mother, I went back from school to complete the story. And I remember she picked a fight about something. I can't remember what it was.

that would make it reasonable that they would act or behave or believe what they believe, all of a sudden, I felt like I understood. And so in a matter of a few weeks, what felt like a decade of hate and anger directed towards my mother, I went back from school to complete the story. And I remember she picked a fight about something. I can't remember what it was.

that would make it reasonable that they would act or behave or believe what they believe, all of a sudden, I felt like I understood. And so in a matter of a few weeks, what felt like a decade of hate and anger directed towards my mother, I went back from school to complete the story. And I remember she picked a fight about something. I can't remember what it was.

And you have your normal routine of getting into a fight with someone, right? And I just remember having no like emotional, I had no adrenaline spike. And I just felt very like, it felt like she'd hit a button, but the button wasn't hitting the normal trigger path that it was supposed to. And so I just remember looking at her and being like, I understand. And I'm sorry.

And you have your normal routine of getting into a fight with someone, right? And I just remember having no like emotional, I had no adrenaline spike. And I just felt very like, it felt like she'd hit a button, but the button wasn't hitting the normal trigger path that it was supposed to. And so I just remember looking at her and being like, I understand. And I'm sorry.

And you have your normal routine of getting into a fight with someone, right? And I just remember having no like emotional, I had no adrenaline spike. And I just felt very like, it felt like she'd hit a button, but the button wasn't hitting the normal trigger path that it was supposed to. And so I just remember looking at her and being like, I understand. And I'm sorry.

And she, of course, you know, burst out into tears and it was, you know, a huge emotional moment. But like at the end of the day, it was like, I get it. Like you went through a lot and I'm sorry that you've had to deal with these demons. And it wasn't about me. And I think it's a lot of us.