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Before I know it, I'll be thirty and I'll realise that every day I look less like the person I wanted to be when I was fifteen.

When we feel like victims, all our actions and beliefs are legitimised, however questionable they may be. Our opponents, or simply our neighbours, stop sharing common ground with us and become our enemies. We stop being aggressors and become defenders. The envy, greed or resentment that motivates us becomes sanctified, because we tell ourselves we're acting in self-defence.

Human beings believe just as they breathe - in order to survive.