The spirits reveal no great secrets to Ebeneezer Scrooge. They only reveal that other people exist, that they live their own lives beyond our reach. With the smallest effort we could imagine what they might — what they must — be doing. How we’ve helped them or hurt them. How they’re getting on. And that little bit of imagination is everything. It is the first thing the Golden Rule commands. Before you know how to do unto others… you must start by thinking of them, by putting yourself in their place. All else follows. Even Dickens’s vision of hell seems to indicate this: being forced to wander a world of people you are noticing for the first time, now powerless to help them in any way.
Paul Bibeau

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Source: paulbibeau.blogspot.com

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