今天的小短文很有意思，还可以跟着学习几个新单词哦：
Imagine a group of porcupines in winter. The porcupines are freezing.
They close ranks to warm each other, but porcupines have spikes.
When they come together they sting each other, so they must move apart again.
But then they freeze, so they get back together.
That goes on and on. They come together and sting each other. They move apart and freeze.
They leave each other and freeze, they close ranks again and sting each other. Just like an accordion.
Porcupines are like us.
Our need for compassion, affection, fun…
Our need for human proximity lets us close ranks.
But the ideas of others, their quirks, their political stance, even their smell, forces us to move away.
We constantly fluctuate back and forth between desire and rejection.
Whereas Schopenhauer said,
“… the world offers no choice beyond solitude on one side and vulgarity on the other.”
We are yanked in and out of solitude and vulgarity.
How can we overcome this…
so we mustn’t live as an accordion?
How can we overcome this…
so that we don’t have to live like an accordion?
Schopenhauer has a clear answer…
Through POLITENESS!
POLITENESS is Distance full of compassion.
or if you will…
Proximity with the needed distance.
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