Often you have to contribute positively to the world, even if you didn’t receive the benefit you’re contributing.
You have to be a good parent even if you had bad ones. You have to treat your employees well even if your boss treats you poorly. You must teach even if you weren’t taught.
Your own bad experience can’t become your excuse for abandoning your duties to others. You must hold yourself to a higher standard than the world has presented, or you’ll always sink to the lowest level the world has to offer.
Cycle up, heroes. You are founders of great and mighty works. The seeds you plant will shade generations of the grateful.
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