Paul Conti

And there can become, I think, a push towards extremes, either nihilism or I'm going to change everything, right?

And it's like, how about let's start from how do I want to behave in my own

community, which starts with, how do I want to behave in my household?

What kind of neighbor do I want to be?

I mean, it might seem like things like that are silly or small in comparison to the big things, but I don't think they are.

I think that's how we start building foundations that lets us tackle the big things.

And then I do find myself saying what I'm working with, sometimes doing therapy with younger people, of helping them kind of bring back their

thoughts, their strivings, their decisions more to themselves and living with and around themselves more instead of in something that becomes very theoretical and therefore very threatening and unnerving.

How do I want to be today?

If I go into the grocery store and the person in front of me drops something, I can scowl because I'm in a rush, right?

And I can be like that, right?

I can be like that.

I've been that way many, many times in my life, right?

And it's never done anyone a damn bit of good, including me, right?

Or I can realize like the 10 seconds aren't going to matter.

Can I help pick that thing up or just smile?

These are the seemingly small things that I think make the tenor of our lives, right?

Right.

Think about it.

You remember that?