How can we all be happy in a fragmented and diverse world?

Zsolt Hermann
1 min readDec 25, 2022

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Question from the Internet:

“How can I be happy when I have different opinions, morals, and standards for society and can’t relate to anyone else?”

You are right.

None of us can be happy in a world where we are all locked into our own inherently subjective and egocentric corners, viewing others like aliens with their own vastly different opinions, morals, standards, and viewpoints.

Instead of becoming happier, we all dig ourselves ever deeper into ourselves while constantly fighting and competing with others, trying to prove ourselves over them while surviving and succeeding at each other’s expense.

What we need to learn and realize is that none of us is “whole” in and of ourselves. We are all only elements, parts of the whole.

Full, collective, and mutual understanding, a perfect and objective perception of reality, and a true sense of life are possible only when we put all of our separate fragments, all of our unique qualities and abilities, together like cells of the same living body.

Then we will start to see a completely different world and feel the true joy of existence like we feel a usually healthy and complete life above all the cells and organs that comprise our biological body.

Existence and happiness in a globally integrated and interdependent world mean becoming a consciously integrated single Human organism that experiences life as “one man with one heart.”

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Zsolt Hermann
Zsolt Hermann

Written by Zsolt Hermann

I am a Hungarian-born Orthopedic surgeon presently living in New Zealand, with a profound interest in how mutually integrated living systems work.

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