I hear my father-in-law's response. . . "Naïve, dreaming Adam. He who would do battle with the many-headed hydra of human nature must pay a world of pain & his family must pay it along with him! & only as you gasp your dying breath shall you understand, your life amounted to no more than one drop in a limitless ocean!" Yet what is any ocean but a multitude of drops?
Sometimes you can be with a group of people and feel so much love for them while you're looking around and then you get to yourself and you go, "Ugh. "