My individual life and the life of the whole collective is one and the same

Zsolt Hermann
2 min readMay 7, 2022

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Question from the Internet:

“What do you try to do to make the world a little better? And does it give you satisfaction?”

In order to answer this question, we would need to understand and feel how our world works.

We keep talking about a global world, we keep talking about interconnections and the necessary cooperation, but to be honest, we are not even scratching the surface.

Living in a globally integrated and fully interdependent world we became like single cells in a living organism. Our individual life is tantamount, totally equal to the life of the collective, we simply cannot separate one from the other.

So whatever I think can improve or make my life better, I immediately have to do it for the whole collective, since it cannot be good or better for me unless the whole collective is better.

In our generation, the often-used but totally misunderstood principle of “love others as yourself” acquires its full, correct meaning. I have to love and unconditionally serve others because those others are me — I am just a single cell of that collective me my life depends on!

And of course, it will give me satisfaction if I make the life of the collective better. It is like the biological heart “feeling satisfaction” when it keeps the body alive and it is true for all other cells and organs in the body.

We need a unique, purposeful and practical educational method to understand and “viscerally” feel that my individual life and the life of the whole global human society are one and the same and the prosperity, health and satisfaction of the whole is my prosperity, health and satisfaction.

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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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