Question to Colonel
Chris Hadfield (Canadian Astronaut)
Q: If you could make a
phone call to the 20 year old Chris, what would you tell him?
A:
To recognize that every
single person you meet is struggling.
I didn't know that
then.
You tend to see other
people as completely foreign individuals.
I still do sometimes.
But to recognize that
everybody you meet, every single one of them, no matter how expensive
their suit is or how serious their expression is, they are looking
for significance.
They are trying to do
the best they can and they fail regularly.
And they're within
their own particular battle of their own life.
And so cut them some
slack for that.
Don't let them off the
hook but recognize the shared nature of being a human being.
And let people be
themselves, make some allowances for them, treat people a little more
kindly as a result.
