Only since the Industrial Revolution have most people worked in places away from their homes or been left to raise small children without the help of multiple adults, making for an unsupported life.

If you're living completely on your own, break out of solitary confinement. Seek to understand others, and help them understand you

Does this feel warmer or colder?

As much horror as we have always created, we are a species that keeps moving forward, seeing new sights in new ways, and enjoying the journey.

Imagine what you'd do if it absolutely didn't matter what people thought of you. Got it? Good. Never go back.

Instead of fretting about getting everything done, why not simply accept that being alive means having things to do? Then drop into full engagement with whatever you're doing, and let the worry go.

No matter how difficult and painful it may be, nothing sounds as good to the soul as the truth.