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ILLUSTRATION: KATHRIN LANG
The world contains much suffering. Global catastrophes destroy innocent people. Your neighbourhood contains troubled souls. You have a loved one in pain. Perhaps you are, too, but you’re bound to know someone who has it worse.
Put like that, your own pleasure seems an indulgence. Enjoyment appears a frivolity while the planet is burning. No way ought you to be relaxing in your comfortable chair, serving nobody but yourself. Not when, out there, some are building bridges to mend a broken world.