All Altruism is True

“I’m useless alone.”

“We’re all useless alone. It’s a good thing you’re not alone.”

Did you know that apartments in New York City have horizontal windows, and the horizontal windows don’t open completely, maybe just a few inches?

All of them?

Mine does. Ask me how I know.


The fate follows the falls; she looks out her bedroom window, heavy rain soon

Another dreary day outside, is it night or is it noon

And inside, where the weather has no effect whether she feels high or low

In these four walls while drenched outside, there’s nowhere left to go


Did you know that apartments in New York City have horizontal windows, and the horizontal windows don’t open completely, maybe just a few inches?

All of them?

Mine does. Ask me how I know.


EEAAO spoke to me – it seems like it spoke to many who watched it. But there’s one scene in it that has bothered me since I first saw it: “We’re all useless alone.”

I’d like to think we aren’t. I’d like to think we all have the chance individually to be someone who can make the world a better place. Of course not everyone takes the opportunity to do so, but the point is the opportunity is there.

And each person has the right to do what they choose with their life, even if it is to make the world a worse place.

So, what am I going to choose? I ask myself, as I type myself, my soul, my self, still lost. But although lost on who I am and what I am doing here and what I am meant to do here and what to do to make the world a better place on large scale, I know I can accomplish this on a small one. I can daily strive, daily try to make someone’s day a little more bright. It may be dark outside, clouds blocking light, but I can still find the little ways to make the little things in life come to the forefront so the rest feels fine. It’s what I’d want someone to do for me, so I’ll do it for someone else, and in the process of trying to make someone else happy, maybe I’ll make myself…

Each person has the right to do what they choose with their life, to actively or passively make the world a better or worse place.

What are you going to choose?’

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