Years ago, the film, My Dinner With Andre was a gust of wind that changed the course of my life on many levels. One of the fascinating concepts offered up by maverick play write, Andre Gregory, was the concept that in the prison system, the citizens would play the roles of the inmates and the wardens in an extremely complex web of a self-policing society. You, dear ram-child, need to take a brief inventory and see where you fit into the complex web of reality. You may think that you are holding all the cards, calling the shots, running the program, but in reality, are you? Perhaps the inmates are, in actuality, your wardens and without their supervision, you yourself would cease to exist.

What am I getting at? No matter how much you think you’re on top, from another point of view, you’re actually on the bottom. The solution? Employ compassion with excess and you’ll free yourself from that infernal hierarchy.