The distance we feel from our actions is proportionate to our ignorance of them our ignorance, in turn, is largely a measure of the length of the chain of intermediaries between ourselves and our acts.

Much as we complain about our condition or feel victimized by fortune or fellow humans, we simply love being alive. We love life in others and in ourselves. We are in love with life. To love life is to love the activities of which it consists and to hope for more.