All the lessons of life that we need to learn are reflected in Nature – within the problem lies the solution, if only we care to observe, to pay more attention, and are more mindful of what’s going around us. We see but do not observe; we see, but do not relate.
Here’s a lesson from Porcupines.
On a cold winter's day, a group of porcupines huddled together to stay warm and keep from freezing. But soon they felt one another's quills and moved apart. When the need for warmth brought them closer together again, their quills again forced them apart. They were driven back and forth at the mercy of their discomforts until they found the distance from one another that provided both a maximum of warmth and a minimum of pain.
The lesson here is that we, as human beings, the emptiness and monotony of the isolated self produces a need for society. We need to socialize and mingle with people. However, our many offensive qualities and intolerable faults drive us apart. The optimum distance that we finally find that permits us to coexist is embodied in politeness and good manners. By keeping this distance between us, we can satisfy our needs for society, and at the same time, we are spared the stab of one another's quills.
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